It's crazy how much the bird-app timeline is engineered to get you to keep scrolling. It takes every ounce of energy to stop.

FC on the other hand is like a pleasant scroll in the park.

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The focus on protocol + ecosystem (vs. engagement/retention) is so refreshing

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oh 100%. It's all the things you mentioned, but also a ton of factors we probably don't realize from colors, type-facing, font size, spacing, etc.

Twitter laces their product with the optimal amount of stuff to keep their users high but not cracked out lol

It’s in part because of the auto start of videos, audio, bright colored ads and suggested posts “you might like”. Once you have the customer data and what they like you just keep feeding it to them like crack.

Def less people on here is a factor.

That being said, something sensory and tangible about the UX makes me feel like im not doomscrolling. The only thing I can point to is Twitter has been relentlessly optimizing for DAU, session length, etc for years. That isnt FC's mission.

I’ve been seeing a ton of praise like this recently, and while I (clearly!) also like Farcaster, most of it seems to be about there just being way fewer people here, as opposed to anything to do with the product itself?

It’s also that you as a farcaster have to put a bit of effort to find interesting conversations happening on FC!

That effort means something here combined with unfiltered conversations.

It’s also nice to start fresh on who you follow