What we are seeing more broadly is the equivalent of mass migration patterns during the industrial revolution. Let me explain.
- People moved to rural land to cities in search of opportunity (joining Twitter for the first time).
- Cities explode in size and importance. (Twitter is the town square for Earth).
- Cities become crowded, expensive, and provide a lower quality of life. (Twitter becomes mostly read-only for 99% of users, isn't designed for finding your niche)
- New cities crop up with cheap land and opportunity, migration trickles out from large cities. (Farcaster, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Nostr, etc. crop up for people to try and find their own path to opportunity)
Twitter is one example, but this will become true for more social platforms.
So, yes Farcaster is a network, but not yet a state. Though it has all the same patterns of prior history.
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