7858
@7858.eth
Alright I slept on it and it’s still eating at me. This is poison. Is it a step toward 10x’ing DAUs? Almost certainly. I don’t blame Merkle. But this is exactly the kind of mechanism that promotes Current Thingism and tanks the average shelf life of content on a platform. It incentivizes top level casts and replies in the moment’s hottest little bucket over sharing the original thoughts on niche topics that made this place so appealing in the first place. And it was the complete absence of this kind of timeline cruft that made Farcaster feel so preternaturally high signal and productive of non-regretted interactions. This is eulogy for an era that I will remember with great fondness, not a protest or feedback. Happily for all of us, this place is not designed by committee. This is reality, where goods and services cost money. Merkle either slowly bleeds to death providing a magical tree fort for my favorite nerds or it lives long enough to see itself become something more like TikTok. 🫡
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Joshua Fisher ⌐◨-◨
@joshuafisher.eth
Also anyone can theoretically create a new Client that optimizes for what we love, Merkles job is to get so many users that it invites new client developers
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7858
@7858.eth
Cope. Even Slokh and emo.eth couldn’t make an independent client work long term. The multi client world is still a long way off. For better or worse, Farcaster users are wedded to Warpcast for now.
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