Farcaster

What are you most frustrated about re: Farcaster?

If you could change one thing—what would it be and how would you do it?

july

Farcaster is incredible tech, probably the best social media protocol out there atm, and an incredible social experiment where many interesting people had and have the opportunity to connect. It’s full of builders, curious, the people that create new trends and move the world. It has its fair share of “Arab Spring” alike moments, in which strangers gathered for first time. Mavericks building new connections and new projects born.

But bsides that Farcaster struggles to onboard the average neighbor or friend. Ofc, the core community (OG users, nerds, builders) will always be excited to experiment, make transactions, and engage deeply. That creates a sense of invencibility.

But the reality is that most people don’t socialize in the same way we do. Assuming they do could hinder Farcaster’s user base growth. They’re in a completely different reality, for the good and the bad.

Breaking out of this echo chamber is needed for Farcaster long-term success. Doesn’t seem is gonna happen soon.

Not sure what is the solution, but I feel the current FC direction only appeals to a specific niche and creates a big bubble.

Most of my friends that joined FC bcs of me were not using it after a week, because they didn’t find interesting people (for their taste), even after asking them to follow channels. Im convinced that the direction of “earn and make friends” will also not appeal to most of the public.

I mentioned this here too:

Not sure what is the solution, but I feel the current FC direction only appeals to a specific niche and creates a big bubble.

Most of my friends that joined FC bcs of me were not using it after a week, because they didn’t find interesting people (for their taste), even after asking them to follow channels. Im convinced that the direction of “earn and make friends” will also not appeal to most of the public.

I mentioned this here too:
https://warpcast.com/ferran/0xca5e4735

The main reason my muggle friends are not active on Farcaster is, in their own words, that they didn’t find interesting people to follow.

This, in turn, makes them less likely to interact, gain followers, share posts, and engage with the platform. After a week, they forget about the purple icon on their phones.

Something is broken in Farcaster growth. And I believe a motto based on earning money will not fix that or help onboard the masses (if that’s the goal, maybe its not or maybe is not on the current phase).

We need to find the way to onboard more average people, out of the adult-male-tech-nerd-white niche, and build a space in which people feel like non-stop sharing their thoughts, ideas and contents. And make friends on the way.

Just for the sake of doing it.

Also here I talked more specifically on why my friends stopped using FC  even if I hyped it to them a lot:

@vocdoni, prev. Bitcoin Magazine | Purple #203 | Cohost: /diy /anthropology /vote /biohacking /cooperatives

Also here I talked more specifically on why my friends stopped using FC  even if I hyped it to them a lot:

https://warpcast.com/ferran/0xccd90387

I asked some of my friends. This is what I remember:

- Super difficult to make friends, as they don’t find people interesting enough to follow, so they also don’t get followers.
- The channels they may love are quite abandoned or quiet. Lack of diversity in that sense.
- The content is not appealing to them. They don’t understand shit of what people say (too much presence of Web3, tech, dev slang and topics)

How do you think Farcaster would be appealing to non-cryptonatives today?

Why would someone want to sign up from your point of view?