Agree

It gives off old-school Twitter vibes, where it surfaces compelling research papers and ideas within specific domains (eg ocean science)

Also most of fintwit has migrated so decent financial markets commentary

While I mentioned academia specifically in my last cast about Bluesky, I've also noticed a lot of the cutting-edge discussions around finance, economics, markets etc. have steadily been moving to Bluesky. There's no reason Farcaster couldn't be a good fit for these communities, this is a once-in-a-decade opportunity.

And no, none of these topics are about politics, since for some reason a lot of responses shoehorned politics into it.

Bluesky has appealed specifically to this “expert” vibe - I don’t use it but have several friends who work in academia or finance who use it for this specific reason