Farcaster

What’s something confusing about Farcaster relative to other social networks you use?

Can be a feature, jargon, cultural norm, etc.

Will try my best to explain.

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extra mental weight on naming posts - casts

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Worked well enough for tweet and Twitter.

More painful short-term, long term benefit to have a new word.

whats the benefit 

people don't even say 'tweet' so much anymore people talk about 'posting' as a cross-platform thing, and twitter isn't even twitter anymore

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The benefit is branding and having a unique verb.

Plenty of people call them tweets even today.

You can call them posts if you want.

I understand the branding component

my criticism would be: the language gets in the way of features that are actually unique to farcaster by over-emphasizing one that isn't