Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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I was at a social event last night with Hollywood types. They were very interested in the intersection of crypto and media.

They were just as excited about Farcaster, specially as I explained how the Merkle team did a tremendous job at abstracting away the Ethereum identity layer (wallets, private keys) and financial layer (payments). But the fee to join was still too high a hurdle for them. 

I’ll be gifting them all accounts but @dwr.eth @v should consider removing it altogether to accelerate onboarding. Beyond being there to discourage bots (it doesn’t) I don’t think it serves a valuable enough purpose, and keeps good people away.

Also, more soon about my plans for developing better crypto narratives with Hollywood.

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Who's in Hollywood that is used to paying less than $5 for anything?

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That’s missing the point. No one wants to pay to use a social app. And tbf Farcaster doesn’t present a sufficiently novel experience for them to do so beyond connecting with people building in crypto.

It doesn’t change that they’re curious and want to join. But charging a fee for logging into a social app is unfamiliar behavior. We should be making the experience more seamless and comparable to other social experiences. We shouldn’t want to exclude others; we need to increase diversity of perspective here.

Yeah that's why I don' think its the right time to drop the fee

Because nothing you said changes without a fee

Maybe power users getting free invites is a better strategy