Farcaster

1/ On Farcaster growing and "changing"

When we talk to developers, the number one thing they want is retained user growth.

When we talk to early users, they don't want to lose the cozy feel of the network when it had fewer than <10K users.

2/ The goal is build a protocol that one day has 1 billion DAU. That requires developers to build dozens if not hundreds of interesting apps and services.

We need to solve the existential problem (user growth) or this ends up as a science experiment.

But the beautiful thing about a permissionless protocol...

3/ ...is someone could build a client that filters out all FIDs >X (and you get to determine when the vibe shifted). So if more people on the network is changing the experience for you—you have the ability to change it back.

fwiw, I don't think more people makes it worse, just different. And in talking to...

Somebody mentioned that when you say "Try a different client", it feels hollow, but I disagree. I don't give a shit about points, but it reinforced how I genuinely dgaf about degens.