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@htormey
When I worked at Facebook, we thought of social media platforms as akin to TV channels, focused on capturing and retaining the attention of specific demographics. Each platform’s tone and content shaped its audience and defined its appeal. Twitter, over time, has evolved into the Fox News of social networks. Elon Musk’s rightward tilt has alienated many developers, pushing them to seek alternatives. The biggest winners of this migration appear to be Bluesky, which leans left, and Threads. This shift highlights a crucial point: social networks are defined by their editorial stance, which determines who they attract and who they repel. For Farcaster, the question is clear: what kind of editorial opinion will it adopt, and how will that shape the community it builds? Looking at various Dune dashboards related to farcaster, it seems clear that a beachhead needs to be established beyond people who are into crypto. What will that be?
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@dwr.eth
We win if we're the best cryptonative social network. Crypto as a macro trend grows the number of cryptonatives.
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@htormey
Do you think Farcaster today is truly representative of crypto as a whole though? It feels more like a subset detached from other communities, like memecoins on Solana. At the end of the day, doesn’t a social network succeed by driving viral growth and engagement, giving users a clear reason to invest their time and invite their friends? I obviously like what you guys are doing with farcaster, but often the community feels like this image below, I.e a narrow subset of crypto.
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Agree, so need to make the value prop clearer for cryptonatives. So rather than a decentralized Twitter built on Ethereum it’s a cryptonative social network and protocol
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