Farcaster

It feels like Farcaster is starting to lean left in ways I personally don't really love.

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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.

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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I genuinely believe this is a disagreement purely on incongruent definitions of labels.

Things that I think we agree on, if we ignore labels for a second:

1. Our traditional states do not represent our interests
2. Borders are a construct of traditional states and aren't relevant in the future we want
3. We want a reliable collectively owned consensus mechanism that we can build upon (rather than whoever-has-the-most-money-gets-to-pick-the-rules consensus, or whatever half-assed electoral governance process)
4. We want to empower individuals to reach their full potential (and earn proportional rewards for their *results*)
5. There's nothing wrong with money and earning it.

Something we might disagree on (for now):
6. What is "the state" vs "the collective" vs "the individual", to me the collective is the many layers of society we live in (we are all members of different collectives, e.g. family/neighbourhood/company). It is not our government/state/military, those are quite adversarial in my model too.

Really loving all the conversation around this, thanks for creating space for it to happen @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.