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.

ooo i’ve been looking for this

any suggested follows or starter packs over there?

agree—i just think it’s hard for a lot of academics to get over their instinctive “ick” factor when it’s anything remotely “crypto”

janitor for /zk and some more stuff here linktr.ee/randomishwalk

There's a "Feeds" feature on the default app covering different topics, but I've heard some of the third party apps have much better discoverability. Haven't tried them though, I just got sucked into it as a specific topic I'm interested in has all of the good discussions there.