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yuga.eth
@yuga
It feels like Farcaster is starting to lean left in ways I personally don't really love.
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
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yuga.eth
@yuga
Some of it is low quality election-related posting. Another part is this “crypto is actually leftist” vibe (libertarian socialism, anarchism, DAOs as governance, etc.). I have 0 problem with people who believe in those things organizing on here. But if that becomes the dominant ethos of Farcaster, it will alienate me and, I suspect, many others.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
1. I lean leftist and I suspect we have more in common than is immediately obvious (personally I feel there is a lot of overlap/compatibility/synergy between seemingly-conflicting ideologies if only we abandon labels for a second), happy to explore that more if you're into it. :) 2. FWIW I feel that Farcaster as a whole is moderately anti-leftist. I'd say the majority of people are terrified of leftist labels and aren't willing to even entertain their underlying concepts independently. (See screenshot) 3. I am curious to hear more about what makes you feel alienated, though?
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yuga.eth
@yuga
RE: 3 - my opinion is that crypto is a radically anti-leftist technology. It rejects the collective - most importantly the state - in favor of the individual. That’s part of why I am in crypto. So when I see leftism on a crypto-forward app like Farcaster, I believe it’s self-defeating.
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Aunt Homie
@infinitehomie
It may be a matter of how your timeline has been curated. The voices you may be following may lean to the left. Not sure. I’ve seen more “right leaning” voices in my timeline. I am not personally left leaning (I would say I am more so than the next) But as @nounishprof states, it’s agnostic tech. I could disagree with the folks who lean right, or lean left. Same with how a person leans for their vote choice. But that lead to a belief of the app being left or right.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Somewhere out there is a merkle manufactory employee reading this thread and making adjustments to the warpcast timeline to be more right-leaning. Centralized algorithmic timelines scare me.
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