rathermercurial
@rathermercurial.eth
I'm only using Farcaster until Lens gets its shit together.
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@thumbsup.eth
Would love for you to expand on that thought. I’m very sympathetic to it. Lens V2 really made me more open to the design of that protocol than I had been before. Before it was too focused on chain transactions and nfts which felt excessive. I loved Farcaster’s hub approach more. Especially with the ideas going into the design of Lens V3, I continue to be intrigued. The problem for now is the culture over there is lacking. It’s like Farcaster 9-12 months ago or Zora right now, where people are just farming out shitty crypto-referential content in the hopes of making money. Ultimately network effects are what’s important so I’m of FC because there’s a lot of cool people here. Though I’m sure we share concerns over those guiding the project.
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rathermercurial
@rathermercurial.eth
Did you want me to copypasta this post, because you summed it up. FC and Lens are both full of garbage (either human clout-farming or bot-driven crypto farming). On Lens, that's all there is. On FC, there's also cool people to chat with. 🤷 As a protocol, I'm more interested in Lens because its architecture makes more sense in a web3 context and gives me more control as a user. I don't need weird contracts and specific apps to do normal things like delegate or share access control. FC didn't do a bunch of cringe shit up front, like centering the UX around collecting posts (who the fuck collects posts?), but the ecosystem has compensated by dropping a bunch of cringe monetization games without thinking of trust circles vouching/slashing and humanity proof first. (okay I actually like degen but what good is Moxie with a price like that?) But honestly it's the cringe, divorced dad CRDT obsession that I eyeroll most at. Those guys never finish their apps or find pmf.
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Haha thanks I guess. I think we see a lot of the same flaws. I think what I like most about Lens is that Stani isn’t a Elon simp. He sees what X is doing as antithetical free speech and decentralization. Meanwhile Dan wishes to be a page boy in Elon’s neofeudalist regime. So I share all the same doubts. When and if Lens becomes what we think it can be, I’ll be right there with you.
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paw 🎩
@paw
The only reason I dislike Lens is because I was rugged by Stani (just like many other crypto people and projects - rainbow wallet, dydx, etc.). He said people that filled his Google form would get an invite and we didn't.
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MarÃa Paula
@mariapaula
Sorry, capacity is always hard to gauge but nobody "rugged you" -thats a mischaracterization. Happy to onboard you personally - its tough to launch a product and sometimes you need to shrink the waitlist to make sure there is enough capacity. We are past behind that now, and we're ready to welcome everyone
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rathermercurial
@rathermercurial.eth
Yeah, not getting an allowlist spot or airdrop isn't "getting rugged". Tons of us had to wait awhile to get our profiles. There was a workaround, too. Tons of communities had invite permissions
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