I quit a large audience on Twitter and joined Farcaster a year ago as a direct replacement. I didn't know Varun or Dan, and indeed, anyone else active on Farcaster at the time. While "the list" made sense early on, it should be opt-in recommendations now - the engagement inequality is very real. 

This is made worse by the hyperfinancialization, where a handful of those people are incentivized to be very active, while a vast majority of the rest are bots. (IMO, as a casual observer nowadays) Farcaster right now should be aggressively focused on social values over financial values (and yes, this is a very direct contradiction and trade-off) - in design, engineering, and most importantly marketing. Unless the terminal addressable market target is degens, which is fair enough.

I aggressively agree with this. Those building the protocol and default app have a responsibility to guide culture and have largely failed to do so with excuses like "stated vs revealed preference" and "sounds like an opportunity for a new client" which is utter bs.

Do better.

Honest question: there are basically no financialized features built into Warpcast or the protocol, just open primitives and emergent behavior. If you're designing, engineering, and marketing the main client and core protocol, how do you discourage hyperfinancialization? Social shaming?

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Same question then...what would you do?

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> stop being oblivious to the obvious by being blinded by the tech
what does this mean?

1. not refuse any (good, non-growth hacky) marketing efforts
2. discourage the place turning into a casino (it's not that bad but has the potential)
3. there has been some attempt at listening to users complaints but not enough or listening to the wrong users 
4. less focus on only hiring devs at this point (at least devs who don't also understand culture
5. it's a social protocol, find ways to use it that heavily encourage more connection, we humans need it from a better social app
6. heavily de-rank clear use of botting - we all know why they're doing it
7. stop being oblivious to the obvious by being blinded by the tech
8. incentivise higher quality creators by giving them resources they need to grow from the start because new people spend weeks casting into a void and churn 

these may not be perfect or what the team wants to hear but I'm here every day still because I made friends here.