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Lately, I've been more active on Bluesky (different topic, different anon), and it's growing pretty fast. Given Elon has oriented Twitter towards anti-intellectualism, certain communities have moved wholesale already, particularly academia related. It's basically just Twitter without the bloat, but slower still... Farcaster is more interesting to me, but Bluesky has won the attention game - no one knows Farcaster exists outside the niche crypto crowd.

interesting insight. still forming my own thoughts after reading it.

given merkle’s stated plan is for farcaster and warpcast to win crypto first, the last sentence in theory means that it is going according to plan.

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For clarity, not a criticism, just my observation. Targeting crypto makes a lot of sense, but it's a tiny niche, and one that's very unappealing to most normies. Which is fine! Better having a small niche than nothing at all. The real question is is there a goal to expand the audience later? How can that happen? What are the drawbacks to targeting crypto first? (like I said, unappealing to most people)

Makes sense. That said, I hope to further enable hardcore crypto users, then normal crypto interested people and then grow into all kinds of directions (whether that is friends groups, random communities or general social media).

I do think many „normies“ that invest in crypto would sign up & irregularly check in just to get access to 1 channel with the best (aka most well known) crypto influencers posting and quality curated crypto news.

Neither Twitter nor news platforms offer that anymore. Some tg channels come closest but are too deep into crypto.

Essentially the same applies to AI and many other categories. (Sports coverage & ofc entertainment is better on other platforms though)