Dan Romero on Warpcast

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POV: there is no influx of people waiting to join Farcaster once it goes permissionless other than airdrop farmers. 1. We use Ethereum, so anyone anti-crypto is won’t be convinced in the near term 2. Existing apps are too similar to Twitter, with way less content New types of apps / behaviors for growth.

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I’d focus on Ethereum builders. The more of them you onboard, some % convert to building on top and attracting consumers with various use cases. Can sweeten the deal with grants/protocol upside for apps that’s grow protocol DAUs.

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There was a point when Lens was more decentralized than Faracster, but now that has reversed. Hubs was a good choice because IMO without its own network that can be optimized a web3 social network can't scale. Lens has become more and more centralized. Wrote some scattered thoughts on this last year https://t.ly/XhBU-

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Minor quibble: <moleman>I'm anti-crypto.</moleman> But I try to keep an open-ish mind.

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billzh pfp

Staying invite gated until 1M users doesn't sound too crazy, no?

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Ideally user doesn’t know FC is underneath. Mostly useful for devs to know and care. But how do you teach someone the portability of their social data when Twitter/instagram walled gardens is what they are used to?

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@dwr.eth I see bsky is prioritizing crypto/nft project founders for onboarding atm…

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Naive question but does bluesky not have the same anti-crypto problem? Seeing a shocking number of my web2 software developer crowd show off their new bluesky profiles

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Ryan Anderson pfp

I think this is probably accurate. Lens started with a stronger brand and developed demand earlier. Farcaster is better, but less differentiated and doesn't have as compelling a story or brand. Both of those things are easily fixed.

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https://warpcast.com/tayyab/0x259417

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grin pfp

what can ppl get/do here that they can’t anywhere else?

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Warren pfp

There’s supposed to be an airdrop for this platform?

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Cameron Armstrong

Any thoughts on a way for the Merkle team to showcase FC native apps without explicitly endorsing? There’s a bit of a cold start problem on breaking very far away from existing mental models for apps and some sort of bootstrapping of attention could help more builders try moonshots w/o the a16z Mandate of Heaven

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Mac Budkowski ᵏ

We need some FarmVille-like web3 games built on top of FC. Getting access to 10k+ crypto power users, sharing scoreboards in the feed, trending NFTs tab - seems like a good deal for game designers.

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The main thing is snowballing content. You need people who produce content on farcaster and no where else. A few rock star content creators and people will check in occasionally just to see. The hurdle to check farcaster is not that high. But coming in and not seeing new content kills momentum to check in to the app.

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You need to be appealing to crypto subgroups in order to grow. People won’t join if their dao/protocol/nft community are all using Twitter still. Having coordinated migrations between all members has a better chance of sticking than every man for himself.

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I think you are right. How do you think about giving 3rd party limited amounts of invites based on proposals with a clear onboarding / selection process? The more additional use case (away from Twitter) and better selection they provide the more invites.

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Brent Fitzgerald

Some new forms of marketing will be required to expand outside the eth builder community. My naive take is that other dev/creator/builder communities could be good matches, and would leverage the current grain of the platform. Open platform social network for builders would be pretty powerful.

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I go to social media to learn new things and be entertained. I feel like on farcaster I dont get the feeling that the app is caught up with crypto discussions or creating entertaining content/memes.

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