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Sunny
@sunnysangwan
I've been a part of the art community for 2.5 years on X & now here for a few months, & I can tell you with certainty that artists on @farcaster are at a crossroads. Best case 1: There's some foundational shift where the fc ecosystem elevates these "quality content" creators & they can have a meaningful existence here. Best Case 2: They go explore Lens or maybe back to X (where despite the algo, they get some recognition for their art from their peers). Worst case: They get disenchanted with web3 altogether because they've been scammed, rugged, ignored, reduced to a number & pretty much treated like second class citizens regardless of where they exist. I worry about this the most. Irony 1: The art community is the most vibrant community any social community can have. We literally have generational talent hanging out amongst us & most of us are unaware. Irony 2: Artists who are here are the most tech forward of the normie bunch we'd wanna onboard. Biggest assets for any social platform. 1/2 🧵
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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
@pichi
I don’t want to add fuel to the fire, but maybe some sparks. On Airstack I can see one of my casts got 308 likes, 161 comments, and 232 recasts. It was a fun little mint for my community. It earned 1,3000 moxie. On Warpcast those numbers are: 115 likes, can’t even see the number of replies, and 93 recasts. Warpcast has decided that half my community is low value and not the right type of engagement. I can see it from the moxie values. I know this. But it kills me inside because I know my community is kind and generous and supportive of me and this feels like they’ve been labeled worthless.
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J Finn 🎩
@jdotfinn
so this would show up on Wildcard tho in full right? feels like the perfect timing for the “client wars” then. Wonder if Hamcaster will have a say in this too
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downshift
@downshift.eth
this is difficult without having channels or dcs in the protocol. options for client-builders: 1. wait for availability of APIs (either Warpcast or the fc protocol)...what most alt clients are doing. 2. fork the protocol and extend functionality themselves 3. recreate channels + dcs in a ~centralized manner
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J Finn 🎩
@jdotfinn
very insightful, thanks for sharing that, had no idea. so that means the alt clients are just experiments on the greater protocol? but should APIs become available, they can then add full functionality?
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downshift
@downshift.eth
yes, i would go so far as to say "build your own client" is a disingenuous statement so long as Warpcast is tilting the table towards themselves (not suprising given the obvious incentives) however, their strategy does make sense to me: the hardest part is attracting and retaining users, and they are prioritizing this over a fully-fledged protocol that allows true client competition (no one will care about a protocol with no users) it's a chicken-egg situation 🤷♂️
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