Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
@dwr.eth I think the exit energy on twitter is extremely high rn… highest I’ve ever sensed. And more importantly notes and bluesky are locking down some big subcultures. Any plans to onboard a lot more people? Wondering if there’s a highly crypto friendly crowd that could be onboarded wholesale.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Generally skeptical of mass exodus -- the reversion of the mean + a little bit higher from the Mastodon moment happened in January. I'm always happy to give invites and we're working on getting to permissionlessness for sign ups, but I suspect the biggest issue is people say they are leaving Twitter and then don't.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I think you’re underestimating the effect of a critical minority taking certain kinds of content off twitter even if they stay, influencer dynamics unraveling, etc. Twitter will rely increasingly on narrower kinds of low-value content and suffer more debilitating nutritional deficiencies.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Possible, but I suspect TPOT is anti-crypto enough that Farcaster won't be in the running in the near-term. We have to win on net new behavior / only on Farcaster stuff vs. be the best Twitter clone. And as for EVM ecosystem, I've personally video onboarded several hundred people but revealed preference is Twitter.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I’m thinking other groups like tpot… there’s got to be hundreds of similar ones waiting to topple like dominoes. One of the things about the mastodon wave was how while subcultures left. Suddenly entire topics disappeared from my feed. I think all it takes is 1-2 key people in a field.
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