Farcaster

Social media is not the endgame of the internet

Your grandkids (or at least a generation or two) is going to tell you how much of a boomer you are for still clinging on to your social media (back in my day I used to be on Farcaster all the time, okay grandpa)

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

I sometimes think about role of text in the future mass communication. Will we stick with text+media feed for this century or are we going to come up with something new?

Building /frametown. Amusement, wonder, and uncertainty ✴︎ libred.org


Lindy Effect hints us text will continue dominate but seeing the rapid advancements in VR/AI, TikTok usage; it’s not clear to me text will continue to be main medium of remote communication.

Encoding is also important. Information sharing can be more effective with higher efficiency, ie. by sharing less information. Examples: clear writing and poetry.

I think it comes down to bit rate

How much data can we pass through - will our mechanism for TX/RX of that data change? 

Right now, spoken language is a protocol, and we can transmit a certain bit rate through it. Written language can do a bit better bit rate, but BCI unlock is big - can there be more than that too?