Product

The primary reason most people use social products (and stick around) is their friends are using it. This is why invites and contact upload are core UX to any successful social network.

The secondary reason is there is entertaining or interesting content. This is why algorithmic feeds have won.

Nothing else matters.

> This is why invites and contact upload are core UX to any successful social network

yes but you also don't need to exclusively optimize push the old "connect your phonebook" approach; you'll get more folks doing that when folks joining with *existing* onchain networks feel connected together on FC

Curious when this was first attempted. FC didn't grow meaningfully large until a few months back (and this sort of support is def one that works better at larger scale) when most of the popular artists and collectors (i.e. folks who have material and meaningful onchain connections)

We inititally tried this. Turns out most people don't have meaningful onchain connections. And in many cases, people with similar NFTs don't end up wanting to follow each other (despite popular belief).