My sweet spot Farcaster narrative right now: Small community of high quality people doing lots of interesting things in a novel environment.

The last time I've met so many online friends IRL was 2010 era Twitter.

Just had a lovely poker night with 5 Farcasters and 1 normie. Not crypto bros but a candle maker, a realtor with a sick motorcycle, a StatsCan employee... and it was nice to point and say "yea this is Farcaster" as we warpletted the outstanding balance to each other for $0.00035 in fees in under 5 seconds.

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My general take on this: one thing is not enough for sticky social growth, it needs to be several different things that integrate into peoples' lives in different ways. A multi-polar dependence!

We used to say "it just needs one killer app" but I think that's 2010 era thinking that didn't pan out long term.

What this looks like: Each week I do a bunch of different things that are enabled by Farcaster, each a separate habit, and occasionally I discover new things I want to add to my habits.

Some examples today:
1. Have conversations with people in my stream by replying to threads (very vanilla)
2. Compete on the weekly Rewards leaderboard (it pushes me to do some kinds of posts more than others, for better or worse... sometimes I'll save a post for next week.)
3. Play with miniapps. For a while, geoguessr was fun, now it's MiniWord, probably something else in a few weeks. Not sure how sticky this is but I bet we'll find something here eventually!

We need a larger variety of different appealing use cases.

Per @mjc716’s thread after FarCon, this is a great scene

But the outstanding question is — how does it evolve to become a platform? Curious what you would do if you could direct its growth

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I would totally hang out with tons of people here, because what they do know and it is not related at all to web3 or crypto. It would be so awesome, but unfortunately most of them are not in Madrid, Spain.

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cute idea for a miniapp: a pinned cast that has your "current status"

It brings me back to the high times of <div> hacking MySpace like our mini-apps, creating communities on forums like Gaia like our social media platforms, and used AIM away quotes and profile quizzes like we scroll our cast feeds today.

i feel the same. there’s a world where farcaster is more valuable for the density of quality people rather than the scale