Farcaster

In retrospect, decentralized social network has been terrible framing for Farcaster.

Two recent frames that are better:

1. Farcaster is an economy — social network + crypto wallets, small but high GDP per capita, h/t @woj.eth @luc 

2. Programmable social — X APIs are dead, Farcaster APIs are constantly getting better, h/t @six 

It's still (mostly) decentralized under the hood, but lean into the things that it's really good at relative to the competition.

my notes on the farcaster rebrand

- wallets and composability are downstream of decentralization, making it an accurate word to describe farcaster.
- "farcaster is an economy" is a weak pitch, imo. it sounds cool but is hard to grasp, which reduces its effectiveness.
- I'm glad dan leaned into crypto as farcaster's main differentiating aspect, it was long overdue. I'm curious to see how warpcast will evolve now.
- decentralization is great. stop making it sound like a bad thing.

thanks for coming to my ted talk