Farcaster

Warpcast needs more content. That’s not a technical problem it’s a human problem — you just need more people naturally using the platform from all walks of life. They may be people you like or dislike but they and their interactions with each other make up the culture of the platform. The technical infrastructure is just like the physical infrastructure of a city, it’s there to facilitate what the people who choose to live there do.

I never used the Twitter competitors like Bluesky because they just seemed to be the exact same thing as Twitter but intended to create an ideological ghetto for people who felt uncomfortable there. I prefer a messy mix of ideologies, cultures, and politics because that’s more fun and more intellectually challenging. Warpcast is worth migrating because unlike Bluesky it’s genuinely a different and superior interface for interacting with people. Now it just needs the people and I think it naturally would take off and become a mass platform if that is the goal.

Writer, podcaster, and commentator on foreign affairs and politics. Runs /dropglobalnews

Clanker Broadcasting Service /cbs

Thanks! The challenge is very few people who already have audiences on Twitter want to switch (sunk cost).

So you have to market to people not on Twitter...who would be good at Twitter. :)

I think you got me into it. The sunk cost issue is a real one; but I think if I self-appraise the motivation of getting a small but consistent and real economic reward to keep posting has been a really effective motivator. And then over time you keep doing that and you have accrued an audience that you feel motivated to keep posting for.

There are plenty of people who are decent at twitter who could benefit from being early to a new platform AND plenty of people who have audiences who have lost reach on twitter with the new algorithm.

i've been spamming to keep up the pace. 😭

My audience on twitter was shit so that’s why I started building seriously here, best decision I’ve made in a while

Impact

What's the value proposition? 2 things:

1) Harness FC's tipping economy (and later possibly other crypto-based mechanisms - QF, grants, etc.) to fund journalism based on quality reporting (not sensationalism or partisanship)

2) Allow truly censorship-resistant, independent journalism that works for the common interest

You can only realize these in a decentralized system (both the funding and the censorship resistance)

So income + trust & independence.

..something no legacy social media platform can offer (and something that's the dream of countless journalists who are trying to maintain a sense of objectivity in an attention economy that only cares about ratings).

We're already seeing tiny glimpses of this with /theindex & /dropglobalnews but to really get the economics going it needs to be a more broad effect

This could be a way to attract both journalists and mainstream users to FC (eg. if journalists cross post a fraction of their casts on other platforms). also a way to bring value to tipping coins

Farcaster has a value proposition that others can't match. This applies especially to journalists and other "content creators." Why not capitalize on it?

Farcaster has a value proposition that others can't match. This applies especially to journalists and other "content creators." Why not capitalize on it?
https://warpcast.com/abundance/0x3fa91175

- better basic features
- better tools for creators
- a (marketing) strategy to get cool ppl in

everything else is a friendly chat while interest fades and ppl give up

web3 social all-in-one. 
crosspost to Farcaster, Twitter, Lens and Bluesky | yup.io | iOS: https://t.co/gJH0Bi07r4 | Android: https://bit.ly/3uaTz4T

People could also educate their Twitter audience on the benefits of decentralized social and use @yup to cross post

This could be a great selling point for Farcaster.

It is pretty hard to grow any following on Twitter rn, especially if you don't have verification.

you just have to cater to creators. specially small ones. 

twitter/traditional social networks are horrible for small creators

the traditional AI feed makes it difficult to grow a network

You might be talking with the insights from data, but one thing I know for sure is Farcaster needs more publicity than it currently has. I didn't know it until someone talked about it in a space on Twitter. It has a lot of selling point that'd easily draw people from Twitter. True, they may be reluctant, but when they get here, they'll feel at home and bring their community with them. You could try using Twitter influencers, give them incentives and compel them to migrate their communities.