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yuga.eth
@yuga
It feels like Farcaster is starting to lean left in ways I personally don't really love.
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
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yuga.eth
@yuga
Some of it is low quality election-related posting. Another part is this “crypto is actually leftist” vibe (libertarian socialism, anarchism, DAOs as governance, etc.). I have 0 problem with people who believe in those things organizing on here. But if that becomes the dominant ethos of Farcaster, it will alienate me and, I suspect, many others.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
1. I lean leftist and I suspect we have more in common than is immediately obvious (personally I feel there is a lot of overlap/compatibility/synergy between seemingly-conflicting ideologies if only we abandon labels for a second), happy to explore that more if you're into it. :) 2. FWIW I feel that Farcaster as a whole is moderately anti-leftist. I'd say the majority of people are terrified of leftist labels and aren't willing to even entertain their underlying concepts independently. (See screenshot) 3. I am curious to hear more about what makes you feel alienated, though?
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yuga.eth
@yuga
RE: 3 - my opinion is that crypto is a radically anti-leftist technology. It rejects the collective - most importantly the state - in favor of the individual. That’s part of why I am in crypto. So when I see leftism on a crypto-forward app like Farcaster, I believe it’s self-defeating.
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Brent Schulkin
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This is fascinating… I see the truth in your point about crypto rejecting the collective. But I’m attracted to crypto precisely because of the way it also empowers the collective. I’m very progressive and am interested in solving coordination failures, enabling new kinds of cooperation, etc. I also want to take some types of power away from the state, but not really for the sake of the individual. Rather because some global problems are better solved collectively by global decentralized systems than by governments. Crypto solves problems for us both, I guess! The left/right spectrum isn’t up to the task of describing this space, IMO.
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