After a month on Warpcast, I have decided to stick around and keep posting here. Here's why:

1. The community is politically diverse, civil and curious

As a reporter, posting on X and Bluesky can feel repressive in that both platforms are filled with people who want their biases flattered and take offense when their priors are challenged. Many of you here seem earnest, intellectually omnivorous, and willing to engage with viewpoints respectfully without assuming bad faith when opinions diverge or being performative.

2. It feels like an older version of the internet

Maybe it's the cartoon avatars or the anonymity, maybe it's the fact that so many of you work on stuff I couldn't begin to understand how to code. But there's this pre-Facebook vibe here that is really cool. It's even made me appreciate crypto's potential beyond scams and crime.

3. Friends! Fun!

I can't remember the last time I forged bonds with people I don't know IRL about things other than work. And what can I say? I'm a loyal guy.

Smaller and engaged/purpose driven communities will always have higher quality content. @dwr.eth thoughts on how to maintain content quality through a potential hypergrowth phase and/or as a general purpose platform?

totally agree! quality over quantity any day. curious to see how @dwr.eth plans to keep it real if it goes big. always a challenge, but so worth it!