why are there so few young people on farcaster and why is no one worried about it

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It is worrisome. Any social media needs the next gen to like it if it wants sustainability. 

I think it mainly has something to do with money being an issue for people <25 years of age.

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trying to understand this: is it that farcaster & crypto are too expensive?

Younger people have lesser experience and less value to add to a social media platform which is as value driven as this. The tipping mechanism was great for bringing people who don't necessarily have a lot of skills in this realm and then they could start monetising whatever their skills were.

non-crypto-stuff

There's also the controversial power badge. People who don't have it are essentially invisible to the system. If I came in now and had to struggle as much as I see the recent entrants, probably wouldn't have persisted. I was lucky that I had the OG power users who interacted with me and that got me a badge in 15 days.

However, with the end (or pause, atleast) of the tipping meta, people aren't as easy to convince to switch to a platform which is primarily about crypto. We need much much more /non-crypto-stuff to bring in a major audience that we're not catering to rn.