Farcaster

friendly neighborhood shitcaster / building @pinetree

My general take on this: one thing is not enough for sticky social growth, it needs to be several different things that integrate into peoples' lives in different ways. A multi-polar dependence!

We used to say "it just needs one killer app" but I think that's 2010 era thinking that didn't pan out long term.

What this looks like: Each week I do a bunch of different things that are enabled by Farcaster, each a separate habit, and occasionally I discover new things I want to add to my habits.

Some examples today:
1. Have conversations with people in my stream by replying to threads (very vanilla)
2. Compete on the weekly Rewards leaderboard (it pushes me to do some kinds of posts more than others, for better or worse... sometimes I'll save a post for next week.)
3. Play with miniapps. For a while, geoguessr was fun, now it's MiniWord, probably something else in a few weeks. Not sure how sticky this is but I bet we'll find something here eventually!

We need a larger variety of different appealing use cases.

Increasingly believe that Farcaster is a network state

That’s why:
- the IRL pilgrimage (FarCon) is a shot in the arm
- growth is slow but once someone "relocates", churn is low
- scams & broken trust feel particularly tough

Also why establishing a token casino as the main attraction is so polarizing to FC citizens

Haha I was actually mentioning this to people at Farcon.

- has an economy
- has economic distribution 
- has identity

Farcaster is the closest thing we have to a (non-Balaji) network state.  A state of ideas.  A state of shared purpose.  A state of information (instead of location).

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

I think it’s arguable more powerful than Balaji’s thing because it doesn’t bias towards people trying to make network states a thing 

It’s an *organic* network state