Farcaster

The biggest risk for @farcaster (and what to do about it)

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

mostly crypto | helping founders /seedclub | hosting /liquidculture | writing in /words | all the things https://linktr.ee/benroy.eth

You had me until “win over the social slice of crypto.” I see the biggest threat having nothing to do with crypto, but rather a failure to move *beyond crypto*. If FC can’t compete with the value prop of non-onchain services, it will remain capped and niche

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FC has what less than 5% of total crypto on it? and out of that pool, how many folks feel like they are connected with a large enough % of their *existing* onchain social graph on FC? huge upside in bringing more of crypto onto FC that will unlock non-crypto growth since crypto is such a multi-disciplinary melting pot

This place will absolutely not get anywhere close to that if it can't provide a home to the non-trivial mass of itinerant onchain pioneers

Any attempt to somehow leapfrog that core base of users to target something more mainstream will absolutely kill this experiment

just seeing the cast you referenced 

> 4. Win crypto first, then other categories. Likely through channels.

this bit is soooooooooo crucial. FC stewards have the right approach

That’s still peanuts. See Dan’s latest comments - they’re shooting for 1B. To do that, you have to aim WAY beyond crypto