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  A core of users stayed but 90% of the artist community I helped onboard are no longer active.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

Without art, you lose music parties, DJs, writers, performers huge sector 
Even food.  Without those lines of expression, without free Will, there is no growth, there's no littl bit more.  
“For the culture “ 
        cos without it 
you fucked.

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

Mother. Digital, mixed media artist. Painting over Ai. impulsive. Socially awkward. Lover of art, music & LSD. I have seen things u wouldn't believe.