Farcaster

late night crew

I’ve been extremely active here for 6 months.  I don’t invite new people to Farcaster anymore.  I tried to onboard a lot of people at the beginning.  A core of users stayed but 90% of the artist community I helped onboard are no longer active.  It’s a graveyard of user profiles that I brought on.  A focus on how to get those users back on the platform seems like a better bet than trying to convince someone new that it makes sense for them.

I've been a part of the art community for 2.5 years on X & now here for a few months, & I can tell you with certainty that artists on @farcaster are at a crossroads.

Best case 1: There's some foundational shift where the fc ecosystem elevates these "quality content" creators & they can have a meaningful existence here.

Best Case 2: They go explore Lens or maybe back to X (where despite the algo, they get some recognition for their art from their peers).

Worst case: They get disenchanted with web3 altogether because they've been scammed, rugged, ignored, reduced to a number & pretty much treated like second class citizens regardless of where they exist. I worry about this the most.

Irony 1: The art community is the most vibrant community any social community can have. We literally have generational talent hanging out amongst us & most of us are unaware.

Irony 2: Artists who are here are the most tech forward of the normie bunch we'd wanna onboard. Biggest assets for any social platform.

1/2 🧵

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

Founder @pkok | Art lover, Art collector | /pkok /pkokcurated /art-collectors

I’m a part time artist and my art goes into the abyss here (and on X) - I find it so Unnatural to always be engaging and always sharing and liking. 

But I share pics from my garden and they get so much more engagement, not a ton but at least I know they are being seen.