Agree

It gives off old-school Twitter vibes, where it surfaces compelling research papers and ideas within specific domains (eg ocean science)

Also most of fintwit has migrated so decent financial markets commentary

While I mentioned academia specifically in my last cast about Bluesky, I've also noticed a lot of the cutting-edge discussions around finance, economics, markets etc. have steadily been moving to Bluesky. There's no reason Farcaster couldn't be a good fit for these communities, this is a once-in-a-decade opportunity.

And no, none of these topics are about politics, since for some reason a lot of responses shoehorned politics into it.

A lot of people who are interested in decentralization just so happen to hate crypto, I don't know why. It's similar to AI people in SF who don't like crypto, or crypto people who don't like AI. Even though there's a lot of overlap between tradfi people and crypto people, they're still very distinct, and personally I think it will be impossible to convince the general public to be okay with crypto without the inflection of silicon valley patagonia bros who bring it up in every conversation.

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I feel like decentralization people are on the Fediverse/Mastodon.