I'm only using Farcaster until Lens gets its shit together.

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Did you want me to copypasta this post, because you summed it up.

FC and Lens are both full of garbage (either human clout-farming or bot-driven crypto farming). On Lens, that's all there is. On FC, there's also cool people to chat with. 🤷

As a protocol, I'm more interested in Lens because its architecture makes more sense in a web3 context and gives me more control as a user. I don't need weird contracts and specific apps to do normal things like delegate or share access control.

FC didn't do a bunch of cringe shit up front, like centering the UX around collecting posts (who the fuck collects posts?), but the ecosystem has compensated by dropping a bunch of cringe monetization games without thinking of trust circles vouching/slashing and humanity proof first. (okay I actually like degen but what good is Moxie with a price like that?)

But honestly it's the cringe, divorced dad CRDT obsession that I eyeroll most at. Those guys never finish their apps or find pmf.

Would love for you to expand on that thought. I’m very sympathetic to it.

Lens V2 really made me more open to the design of that protocol than I had been before. Before it was too focused on chain transactions and nfts which felt excessive. I loved Farcaster’s hub approach more. Especially with the ideas going into the design of Lens V3, I continue to be intrigued.

The problem for now is the culture over there is lacking. It’s like Farcaster 9-12 months ago or Zora right now, where people are just farming out shitty crypto-referential content in the hopes of making money.

Ultimately network effects are what’s important so I’m of FC because there’s a lot of cool people here. Though I’m sure we share concerns over those guiding the project.

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Great perspectives. Thank you for this starting this insightful thread 🌶️