Farcaster is slick. It’s the closest thing we have to the look and feel of a clean, Web2 social application, with a hybrid back-end architecture that uses onchain contracts for identity management and an offchain peer-to-peer network for social interactions.

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About 40% of user interactions take place on thematic channels rather than their standard feed, which shows how they’ve improved upon some core X features, too.

It’s early days for DeSoc, but I will say that if X goes down, Farcaster’s Warpcast is the first app I’d pull up. (I’m also overdue to try some of the updated Lens apps, and plan on doing so over the holidays. I’m open to suggestions.)

The Farcaster experience is the result of a maniacal early focus on curating the early user base, which
is one reason they count regular posters like Vitalik and Balaji.