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super pumped to share my in-depth research article about the boom of Farcaster's developer community! some key points below:

twitter: https://twitter.com/Dylan_Steck/status/1625940550385016834

substack: 
https://dylsteck.substack.com/p/the-boom-of-farcasters-developer-community https://i.imgur.com/gwSD88W.png

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This makes people naturally inclined to want to find a similar tool they can continue using, with the added benefits of long-term trust and innovation.

That's what makes the meteoric rise of Farcaster so important -- it's at a time where the protocol is needed most.

There are other DeSo protocols in the space like Lens and Mastodon, but social app hype can hinder community engagement and feedback, which are essential for successful app development.

However, no definitive conclusion can be drawn yet.

On Farcaster, community members listen to each other and turn those conversations into products.

Not only is the protocol permissionless, it’s driving real innovation. People genuinely want to use it to drive innovation that wouldn’t happen or be possible elsewhere.

As @dwr.eth mentioned during his interview on the Bankless podcast, Twitter’s early API was an open ecosystem with tons of innovation — they let people build what they wanted to and a lot of the resulting apps contained features that became integrated into the Twitter experience.

What started as tinkering and ideating has turned into community members meeting co-founders, launching DAOs, and even starting venture-backed companies — all on top of Farcaster.

Farcaster has even become a new GTM for web3 alpha and new community apps.

The most exciting part for me isn’t just how these tools will help the Farcaster ecosystem as we know it today, but how they'll innovate in much-needed areas of web3. User apps won't just help the protocol but also DeSo.

As Dan once said, "people use apps, not protocols." https://i.imgur.com/nKNBnDo.png

the article provides more depth and talks about topics like potential risks, ecosystem future, and what this means for DeSo in general -- but I won't add too many casts to this thread :)

hope you enjoy and if you have any questions/comments, i'd love to chat!

The state of Twitter is declining and people are moving both to different social media apps, such as TikTok, and to decentralized apps like Farcaster.

In tech and web3 in particular, Twitter can be a transformative tool both for consuming content and making connections.

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