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Farcaster

A social network that follows the 90-9-1 rule has around 4500 highly active "creators." How big is the network? How many are "contributors?" How many are "lurkers?"

Answers left as an exercise to the reader.

this is the "participation inequality" (PI) phenomenon and it exists in every online community EVER studied since early web.

the inequality will always exist, but we can design social platforms to dampen or intensify the inequality (eg 80-16-4 vs 95-3-2).

worst PI: X, ig, tiktok

better PI: reddit, discord, linkedin

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Super impressed but i’ve learnt something new today. I’ll keep repeating the “PI phenomenon” to myself.

Do you think PI in farcaster is dictated by the protocol or by clients?

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Haha! You made it sound cool with PI, I’ll stick with it. 

Aha! That is very interesting. So as is, client dictates PI. Should we want this to change?

today PI is 100% dictated by warpcast as it is the dominant client and user experience

ps it is referenced as participation inequality i just called it PI because of character count limitations :)