7858
@7858.eth
Alright I slept on it and it’s still eating at me. This is poison. Is it a step toward 10x’ing DAUs? Almost certainly. I don’t blame Merkle. But this is exactly the kind of mechanism that promotes Current Thingism and tanks the average shelf life of content on a platform. It incentivizes top level casts and replies in the moment’s hottest little bucket over sharing the original thoughts on niche topics that made this place so appealing in the first place. And it was the complete absence of this kind of timeline cruft that made Farcaster feel so preternaturally high signal and productive of non-regretted interactions. This is eulogy for an era that I will remember with great fondness, not a protest or feedback. Happily for all of us, this place is not designed by committee. This is reality, where goods and services cost money. Merkle either slowly bleeds to death providing a magical tree fort for my favorite nerds or it lives long enough to see itself become something more like TikTok. 🫡
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The goal is to make this personalized for you over time. Less global and more tailored to your interests. We’re iterating.
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RyanFox.eth
@ryanfox.eth
The biggest request I have is to beat X at their own game. I see two major players with opposite approaches: X: AI helps users make the existing content more valuable IG: AI helps people create content People aren't using Meta's tools, but Grok usage is taking off. It provides context. It lets us re-use the existing data in new ways. This is a great first step imo.
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