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engineer monster
@vicc
Tried shilling Farcaster on X to a non-crypto person and when I looked at the Farcaster profile most posts were crypto-focused (e.g. degen, clanker, ethdenver, etc). From a non crypto-perspective it seemed alien and confusing. My hunch is that if the goal is to bring non-crypto people to Farcaster, it needs to resonate with them. If I didn’t know much about crypto (believe me 90% of my friends don’t - including some in tech that never worked at Coinbase), I don’t think I’d want to try it out without someone walking me through it. This was the problem with Whale Q&A when I founded it with Justin Kan and team in 2016. There are success cases like Snapchat, where the app was confusing to use and relied heavily on word of mouth, but the value prop was much more simple and resonated with their prime audience. You can say making money is a big value prop, but the internet has conditioned us to have a strong scam radar (just look at @jessepollak’s videos - ppl turned down free money bc of this).
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
good feedback, thanks for taking the time to write it up and share it. was it their feed that was overly crypto-focused?
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engineer monster
@vicc
🙏🏼 yeah the farcaster account on X appears to be heavily crypto-focused (without exactly surfacing the benefits of the decentralization aspect or how it differs from existing networks). Maybe a getting started / what is farcaster bio link is better than a telegram link? But to be fair just realized the Warpcast profile on X is a whole lot less crypto-focused and more diverse. Maybe that’s what I should have linked to. For context they were asking if there was a network that could post to where they can prompt the algorithm (remove politics) hence why I linked to Farcaster and not Warpcast.
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