I've been using Farcaster since @dwr onboarded me back in Fall 2021. I was very pleasantly surprised to see the bump in DAUs / interest once frames were launched. 

That being said - Why did frames make Farcaster pop? Did Farcaster just reach critical mass already and this was a catalyst? Or were Frames the kind of ...

We had a few weeks of solid DAU growth and frames created a “moment”. 

Some hiccups the last few days, but 3 years of building out onboarding flows, underlying decentralized infrastructure were all in place. 

And our go to market was cryptonative devs. So when you give a dev a frame,…

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Funnily enough, the resilience Farcaster deminstrated to the hiccups you mention is what made me create my account yesterday.

Result: spending my Sunday combing through the docs 👉 kicking off the week writing a frame to integrate my music nft dapp (gors live Q2)

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Makes sense to me! It seems to be the antithesis of trad social media, where outbound links are deprioritized so heavily that people are unable to share their vision. 

Frames, as I see it, open up the full world of that identity online, revealing the layer beneath the social network to the true world of the poster

Two big factors that set up the frame explosion were

- Warpcast client opening up to the public with a web2 oriented onboarding flow 
- Keeping the web3 component optional but inherently beneficial

The second being something that most protocols and clients continue to overlook

i love that you called frames a “moment”. so easy to get caught up in the froth and hype. appreciate the moments farcaster has given us so far and excited about the many more moments to come.

Can you explain Frames? As somebody who tried Farcaster about a year ago but it didn’t quite stick for me, I’m super confused trying to find my bearings again. 😅 

There’s some new buttons and places to enter seed phrases which seems scary?

What makes farcaster different than other social media platforms

A whole lot of work to be able to capture the spike smoothly. 

Proud 🫡

Love your work. Slow and steady wins the race. Sorry I'm not always here keeping up with it.

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