Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What's on your mind re: Farcaster? Feels like there's been a subtle uptick in negativity recently directed at a variety of people / teams. I'd rather that be directed my way. Curious to hear what people are frustrated with in the replies. Will only ask clarifying questions, i.e. no arguing or defending or telling you that you're wrong. And then I'll do a video response in a few days sharing our latest thinking based on any common themes.
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erik
@etash
It seems like Bluesky has been able to capture some of the marketshare of various communities leaving Twitter (tech and urbanism Twitter are the two I’m privy to). Have you thought about why Bluesky was successful in attracting these users and what Farcaster could learn from it?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Why do you think they’ve been successful?
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erik
@etash
Purely from the standpoint of “where is the conversation happening?” Bluesky in my experience has been more active than Twitter for these communities lately (more so in the case of urbanism as there’s still a lot of tech people on Twitter so this may be more true for niche communities). In terms of the experience, Bluesky has the closest 1:1 parity with Twitter vs. FC or Mastodon so it’s likely an easier mental lift for users to switch over. It also could be a right place, right time situation. Dan Abramov is behind Bluesky so it’s natural that devs would follow.
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patxol 🔷 anser.social
@patxol.eth
I am not the OP but answering anyway :-). Bluesky has had since day 1 major media posting on their protocol. They have most probably run an outreach campaign to get them onboard. And Jack helped for sure. A twitter-like platform without the big news account cannot have a good enough user stickiness to prevent churn. People will go where the news is.
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Arjan | That Poetry Guy
@arjantupan
What I noticed is that they got a lot of press (in The Netherlands) especially around the last wave of Twitter-leavers. It might have to do with their focus on not mentioning crypto or blockchain.
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