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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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

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!