I think the “Farcaster is too nice” take stems from a confusion of thoughtfulness for niceness, and the clear dearth of both on the bird app.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

"manners maketh man"
...and there's more than one way to say f*ck

To your point, the anti-nice crowd isn’t even clever. People can have an edge when needed, but rigid thinking and shit talking for funsies is just being the guy in blue:

🐵 ← 🙈🙉🙊 → /phil →  phil.cockfield.net, db.team →  
ƒ(🌳) →  🧫 /sys  ←  @cell <T>

To your point, the anti-nice crowd isn’t even clever. People can have an edge when needed, but rigid thinking and shit talking for funsies is just being the guy in blue: https://youtu.be/tCJ_CdlTqkk