Farcaster

customer support @supercast

trying to sound smart /doingnumbers

Investing at cherry.xyz | writing at luc.cx

In retrospect, decentralized social network has been terrible framing for Farcaster.

Two recent frames that are better:

1. Farcaster is an economy — social network + crypto wallets, small but high GDP per capita, h/t @woj.eth @luc 

2. Programmable social — X APIs are dead, Farcaster APIs are constantly getting better, h/t @six 

It's still (mostly) decentralized under the hood, but lean into the things that it's really good at relative to the competition.

I feel like "economy" is even worse tbh. It absolutely doesnt tell me what it is without actual further explanation.

I like programmable social, but it misses the the whole decentralized aspect. Agreed though that right now, what's happening on Warpcast relates more to programmability than decentralization, but that's because programmability has more impact on UX, hence UA, than decentralization.

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Very few people actually care about decentralization.

I'm more focused on getting the value prop that helps us grow.

Value prop doesn't change whether it's decentralized or not. :)

Agreed. But it still remain a key value prop of farcaster. Otherwise u can just build warpcast, a centralized social network with high composability. I mean, that has value too.