lack of viral potential for casts could kill Farcaster

posting to just your friends is not enough anymore, people get bored and want more

i've been thinking about this, too

virality is important for a "social media" mindset

connection is important for a "social network" mindset

personally (and not everyone needs to agree w/ me nor want the same thing as me), my preference is "social network"

virality happens in both, just at different scales + speeds

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agree. needs better design for emerging memes + trends to increase sense of collective experience, but i anticipate lots of virality on channel / community scale

we/i underestimate how hard it is to build onchain social. early FB + Reddit had no references except for newspapers or IRL social clubs, now there are many

yeah that’s fair, I think the latter is more reflective of early Facebook and Reddit 

I guess maybe somewhere in between though is “surfacing the best content” which I think can still be a “social network” feature without pushing too much virality. pre-Elon Twitter was more like this I think