Farcaster

In retrospect, decentralized social network has been terrible framing for Farcaster.

Two recent frames that are better:

1. Farcaster is an economy — social network + crypto wallets, small but high GDP per capita, h/t @woj.eth @luc 

2. Programmable social — X APIs are dead, Farcaster APIs are constantly getting better, h/t @six 

It's still (mostly) decentralized under the hood, but lean into the things that it's really good at relative to the competition.

Just like Ethereum, the technical narrative (sufficiently decentralized social network) only works if there’s a “cultural” narrative that fixes that.

Ethereum thrives because.. it doesn’t work, but it’s highly decentralized

So the narrative is “let’s find ways to make it work, stating the fact that the decentralized nature cannot be touched”.

Makes sense?