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Ivy
@ivy
think i finally have a coherent model for how platforms typically fail to retain a lot of the initial buzz once the buzz-generating event is over the 'one group chat' turns into many, and 'focus on the product/protocol' always overshadows 'hire community management to keep the vibes' the extractive nature of FC dynamics makes it even harder here, b/c new ppl looking around don't see what's been extracted from the 'lobby', the group chats or the social clubs and often bounce still think the channel changes are the only sustainable way to do things but i always wonder what clubhouse or FC would have looked like if there was 'founding community manager' hired alongside 'founding engineers'
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
A community manager won’t solve retention. It will help on the margin, but Farcaster has never had a unique social primitive to fuel growth. That’s what drives growth and retention (“only on Farcaster”). Clubhouse had that for a bit but then Twitter Spaces. There’s a reason no scaled social network has been built in 10 years other than TikTok (which spent $1B).
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Ivy
@ivy
it won't now, i guess what i'm saying is that at varying periods there has been a lot of raw gold in farcaster's domain and when farcaster itself didn't mine it some ppl got their picks and shovels going everyone on the network was able to partake a bit in that raw gold however only a subset now do after it's been extracted
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What’s an example of raw gold we didn’t capitalize on? I’m a top 1% user of the product, so generally have a good sense for what’s working or not. :)
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Ivy
@ivy
the raw gold was qdau's whomst largely disappeared into group chats if they still use the product 'high signal' has social gravity, when ppl don't see it they bounce
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Most qDAUs are still here. The challenge was we stalled out increasing the number of qDAU. A lot of tourists in Q1 that went back to Twitter where there’s pre existing audience and more content.
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Ivy
@ivy
your first statement is basically what i'm saying, the tourist thing is real but that's not something you can entirely blame not getting more qdau's on
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