Farcaster

We're not pricing the value of Farcaster taking off. Farcaster is asking people to do normal stuff (use social media), but provides extra benefits bc it's crypto-native. Powerful onboarding tool. 

Question: How do you frame the benefits of Farcaster relative to traditional SM apps in normie-friendly language?

Depends on the person.

If they’re primarily a TikTok or IG user, forget about it until FC is much bigger.

If they’re on X or Facebook:
- social network that can’t rug pull your community
- ability to migrate apps without losing your community

musician: gigameshmusic.com | dev: github.com/gigamesh

I think Farcaster with its connection to crypto rails has a greater chance to make Kevin Kelly's 1,000 true fans thesis a reality.

On all the other networks you need to reach a massive scale before you can actually make any meaningful amount of money. Then you're constantly fighting to keep that attention.

It's not certain whether that model can be broken up with FC but I think it has a much greater chance than anything else out there.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

Building /warpcast and /farcaster

— gabrielayuso.com

What do you think farcaster does specifically here that Patreon doesn’t?

curiosity maxi.

co-founder of @nounish and @nounsfest.  creator of gifs.

I like this answer, makes sense to me.
Although I believe Patreon has been working on this problem it does feel like a little remote tropical island you take your 1,000 true fans to once you’ve made it somewhere else.

As a video creator right now if I want discoverability I go to YouTube, instagram, and TikTok. And really it’s only YouTube if it’s long form. 

There’s nothing yet on farcaster that comes close, hopefully one day there will be. 

Purely because of basic feature sets and user behaviour right now as a video creator Patreon feels like possibly the only place one can live out a 1,000 true fans reality.

I'm not familiar with Patreon as a creator, but as a user it lacks discoverability and deep integration into any social network.

That's why Substack has also expanded beyond just newsletter subscriptions and added their own Twitter-like chat, etc.

Farcaster is already permissionlessly integrated with hypersub, paragraph, automod, etc. so its potential is significantly greater than both Patreon and Substack.

We still need to significantly improve the ecosystem's UX to start attracting more people so it can achieve its true potential.