We’re making Farcaster a news app just by having a few journalists and not suppressing the links. Amazing.

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What's the advantage over Mastodon (and to a much lesser extent, Bluesky)?  Who is the audience aside from cryptobros?

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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IMO the point of op was about where news gets injected rather than where it's consumed. Ultimately news gets syndicated in a billion ways, regardless where journalists choose to post their first reports.

But also it's often a thankless job to be creating this content, it's nice to do it in a space where you're thoroughly appreciated. I hope this can be a space like that for journalists!

Wouldn't you want a news app to have reach vs niche engagement?  I'm just trying to understand why I'd choose to find news on warpcast vs any number of other platforms