The average post on X:

- OP posts something intriguing but with crucial missing context
- 1st reply: “@grok please explain”
- 2nd reply: “@AskPerplexity what is this?”
- 3rd reply: “This sleep hack changed my life [Ad]”
- 4th reply: “100 men could easily defeat a silverback”

Hyperfarcasterization can’t come fast enough

tbf this will likely happen on FC at scale

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it is the inevitable enshittification of any sufficiently large social platform and it's an incentives problem that farcaster does not address (benevolent founders does not count)

The leadership matters. Just look at the difference between Twitter and X

Having multiple viable clients offers a better chance for good stewardship

It’s mid to write this off as an inevitability — might as well give up on civilization while you’re at it

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When building web3 protocols, we should hold ourselves to a higher bar than web2 platforms - otherwise we risk just recreating the same user-misaligned incentive systems that brought us here.

"Don't be evil" is not good enough.

"Can't be evil" should be the bar.

Web2 platform's classic S-curve playbook of attract-extract is the reason I'm building in web3 and trying to contribute to protocols that replace platforms.

Unfortunately due to little user traction there's a lot of compromises being made lately, with a "trust me later, bro" attitude which I think there needs to be some pushback on from people who are volunteering and contributing to growing something they think will be a public good

we've literally seen this play out a dozen times by now. until the incentives are aligned on a fundamental level, platforms will do "the right thing" to attract users and then pivot to extraction because the bills need to be paid. 

the success of farcaster as the antithesis of this entirely hinges on client diversity causing a race to the bottom between clients to provide the best experience to users with a shared data layer – there is no alternative path right now

we've literally seen this play out a dozen times by now. until the incentives are aligned on a fundamental level, platforms will do "the right thing" to attract users and then pivot to extraction because the bills need to be paid. 

the success of farcaster as the antithesis of this entirely hinges on client diversity causing a race to the bottom between clients to provide the best experience to users with a shared data layer – there is no alternative path right now

 https://warpcast.com/df/0xd32bb569

How would you align incentives on a fundamental level?

give users and developers access to ownership in the protocol (token)

You have a problem

You introduce a token

Now you’ve two problems

lol

i think the bastardization of tokens over the years have caused us to forget where they come from and the problems they originally solved

True 

I just think it’s humans all the way down. You end up having to manage token ownership, which is the same problem as leadership (it’s a human problem, not a tech one)

How does a token inherently solve for client diversity?

What if users choose to use the better client at a 95% - 5% rate?

What creates value for the token?

How do you allocate token to developers in a reasonably sybil-proof way?