farcaster turns every app into a social app

multi-player era 🌱

co-founder of generational.xyz, investor, exploring onchain & exploring the 🌍, nomad

an example

robinhood is single-player investing

compare this to what is possible w an onchain investing app that taps fc social graph, casts, dcs, etc

have you heard of public? 

public.com initially launched in 2019 with the main value prop that it was an investing platform *with* a social graph. it was called "the social investing app".

5 years later, there's not a trace of any of the "social" that once bolstered the app.

why not?

generational

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

yep! haven't been in the app in a long time though, do they still have chat threads on specific stocks, etc?

idk how tradfi would even go about letting one person give read only access to another person's portfolio, let alone form private discussion channels around it

onchain this is all so simple, fc was the missing piece to bring in the social component and now w permissionless channels and dcs coming i gotta believe we see a boom of social investing apps that aren't tied to just betting on friends

we're building something along these lines w /generational

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