Agree

It gives off old-school Twitter vibes, where it surfaces compelling research papers and ideas within specific domains (eg ocean science)

Also most of fintwit has migrated so decent financial markets commentary

While I mentioned academia specifically in my last cast about Bluesky, I've also noticed a lot of the cutting-edge discussions around finance, economics, markets etc. have steadily been moving to Bluesky. There's no reason Farcaster couldn't be a good fit for these communities, this is a once-in-a-decade opportunity.

And no, none of these topics are about politics, since for some reason a lot of responses shoehorned politics into it.

I see a reason. Farcaster is full of crypto people. Most people find crypto people repulsive. There is ZERO desire for normies to want to join this platform. I'm into crypto and I find the hustle/grind/creator crypto culture here cringe and boring af to read through most of the time.

It's never going to happen, especially since bluesky is free and fits people's needs just fine. Farcaster offers nothing for these people.

I asked some time ago if there were ANY non-crypto people on this platform, and it was crickets (basically nobody)