Farcaster’s growth reminds me of the early days of Twitter, except this time, the incentives and architecture are fundamentally different. The question isn’t whether decentralized social can work, but rather - what’s the inflection point where it has to work?

History suggests networks scale when they hit a ‘pull event’, something that forces mass adoption. What’s that moment for Farcaster? Is it creator monetisation? A breakout app? Something else entirely?

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I often think that mass adoption of crypto, which leads to mass adoption of spaces like this, is going to happen when the kids born to Fortnite grow into the job market. V bucks and similar game currency has ultimately primed them to grasp the concept of crypto, just got to wait for them to age into the web3 space