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First prompt for this new season of /words   

Why Farcaster? 

Sub questions if you want to go more specific:

-Why do you spend time here?
-What are you drawn to about decentralized social networks?

Please respond with either a comment below or via quote cast here in the channel, whichever you prefer 👽

Why Farcaster?

I came for change in scenery as Twitter became X; stayed for the friends I made along the way. I think the days of monolothic social apps will be behind us, and we'll instead look to portable social graphs.

AT protocol (Bluesky) and ActivityPub protocol (Mastodon) solve similar problems but lack the monetary incentive for both servers and users to commit their resources to, electricity and attention, respectively. Bluesky will likely go the advertising network route, Mastodon may end up as smaller micro communities (like forums) as larger servers become unwieldy to maintain and moderate. There's already an increasing rate of larger servers shutting down for this reason.

Farcaster being built atop Ethereum and potentially other large blockchains is a more futuristic look at technology and I think (hope) with time the technology simplifies such that average users aren't even aware of what's going on under the hood. But rather can benefit from what's possible.

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

Good thoughts. Glad you are here. Look forward to more of your writing.

Rated 💯 by multiple networks. Fluent in /unglish. Unbothered by /whatday of the week it is.

Allegedly a designer.

I actually have no exposure to Bitcoin and thus Nostr. For no particular reason besides laziness and just doubling down my attention on Ethereum!

Well said. Farcaster's focus on portability and blockchain integration truly feels like a step toward the future of social networking.