Murtaza Hussain on Warpcast

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Murtaza Hussain

I have some thoughts about the type of people who are best to help Farcaster grow. When it first emerged, Twitter was not trying to be a global source of news. It happened by organically when lots of people whom I'd call "news influencers" rather than journalists started using the platform for live updates, debates, and sharing information. I myself started accidentally doing reporting"while attending some anti-WTO protests and the Arab Spring as an ordinary curious observer debating people online and posting live updates. It was only after a large number of normie news junkies made Twitter a place where such conversations were happening that the stuffier and richer establishment types felt forced to join in. At that point Twitter became a "global public sphere" almost against its will. I still use Twitter and probably always will. But I think that other platforms can use the "news junkie effect" to create lively new public squares on the internet. A great city should also have more than one public square.

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I totally agree. I believe that an interesting area for expansion is news junkies that are also worried about censorship. I would be very interested in helping create a "kit" (instructions, maybe some additional software, etc.) that will make Farcaster the best place for people in authoritarian regimes to break the news.

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💯 channels a differentiator here too, feels more natural to have conversations w ppl bc it’s easy to find places where ppl have shared interests

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I think the best chance Farcaster has to grow is to nurture creators who may not be 'high level' creators yet but have the capacity to be. Essentially creating a new generation of 'influencers'. I consider myself one of these people as I've never had any type of audience before Farcaster. My X following is 209 LOL.

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"news junkie" seems a lot more explanatory than "always online". people respond to notifications & speedreading differently. those that gravitate are going to naturally be inclined to retentive dialogue (since their counterpart is perceiving more timeliness). in your experience, were the subjects of these conversations all around the same scale as WTO/Arab Spring? how parasocial was it in the beginning, and how informed/immersed were you by family news relative to this evolving vocation?

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the vast majority of those posing as journalists today are, in fact, just dilettante influencers. not just on X, but in formerly legitimate news media. The reason is a drastic decay of journalism education legitimacy paired with the obsolescence of the so-called Fourth Estate.

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Do you think people will stay in FC if the financial earning is gone from warpcast? With this current algo and restriction, I bet no one will stay

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how do you make warpcast a place for news when the main reason people use this app is to market their indie dev projects or earn internet money? this seems like it would take a mass mentality change to get people to care about news here or onboard an entire new wave of non crypto/tech main users.

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The only thing I know is you cannot force something to create your desired result at such a grand scale All we can do is nudge it in our own capacity...rest is in the hands of the collective and the network effects

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I love this insight, and I feel like it adds credence to my opinion on focusing on cohorts. Bringing ppl in together as a small group that already knows each other and is already communicating, but now has access to better tools like /impact where curation and moderation is more than just influencer sensationalism. Iterate with them and show them what digital ownership and sovereignty is by providing a better UX, rather than trying to *tell* people through marketing or advertising. https://warpcast.com/trigs/0x13f67da1

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I’m you’re fan It’s written that you are going to bring news to farcaster ✨

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I think it's too late, especially as the content is now being monetized. You're not going to get impartiality when the social network platform effect is already known, and even less when content has a monetary reward. There needs to be some kind of trust valuation in place to stop factual reporting turning into clickbait if farcaster really wants to go down this route to grow. I'm not convinced it's possible.

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I think the problem is that twitter already exists, in order for another twitter to exist, it needs a unique purpose. Multiple public squares exists due to geography, maybe ideology. Farcaster’s differentiation of an open social graph is just not valued enough yet - especially for journalists and news junkies, this feels like a huge opportunity

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This is just an amazing “inside story” and I love the comparisons with a great city with dofferent places to meet. Imo Farcaster’s final goal isn’t to replace X, at least not within the next 20 years. Instead, it’s about building a new platform where creators can build and be rewarded by leveraging a disruptive technology.

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Regular Quality posters (with new insights) offer a large network effect indeed. During summers I occasionally check fabrizio Romano tweets about transfers in football as he‘s always the best informed. Farcaster has a great opportunity to find and elevate more of these superb informed news/insights distributors for different niches to bootstrap different topics and organic discussions. I‘d probably sign up to various new channels - even if they are not super active today - if I know there is some alpha to drop any day. And I‘d imagine other quality influencers in that niche would love to have a clean, public space to discuss. 420 $degen

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just got to get everones feet wet in the shallow end before you can jump into a big ol ocean

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Yeah I think so too. I first grew my old Twitter account the same way, live tweeting public meetings and speeches, report-backs from antiwar protests and marches, and then through the Bernie campaign. I try to bring a little of that to FC too though I'm much more busy with my kids these days.

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Couldn’t agree more

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Let’s see how things go in the next few years. Great point though, Twitter was not for news when it was first released, this stuff has to happen organically.

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Simple and straight to the point.

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