Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
POV: there is no influx of people waiting to join Farcaster once it goes permissionless other than airdrop farmers. 1. We use Ethereum, so anyone anti-crypto is won’t be convinced in the near term 2. Existing apps are too similar to Twitter, with way less content New types of apps / behaviors for growth.
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Ryan Anderson
@ra
I think this is probably accurate. Lens started with a stronger brand and developed demand earlier. Farcaster is better, but less differentiated and doesn't have as compelling a story or brand. Both of those things are easily fixed.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> but less differentiated and doesn't have as compelling a story or brand How are you defining "less differentiated" and "compelling story or brand"?
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Ryan Anderson
@ra
Lens launched as the next generation of social graph. Farcaster is arguably the same thing, but isn't telling that story as well, imo. FC positioned itself to a more technical audience, where Lens framed it as a social movement. Lens focused on identity design from the beginning.
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Sally
@sal1y.eth
I’d second this. If someone asked me what the story / brand identity or values were for Farcaster I’d have no idea.
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daniel
@pcdkd
Should there be a brand/story for protocols? TLS, SMTP...
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Sally
@sal1y.eth
Maybe not. Kind of blurry lines as it feels like a direct UX of FC more than it feels like a UX of other protocols where I only use the applications. Will people be able to go direct to Jam et al in future vs via a FC sign up process?
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