speaking anecdotally, I invite fewer of my friends to FC now than I did a year or two ago. Still unpacking the reasons / thoughts behind that but curious if others feel the same.

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I’ve been extremely active here for 6 months.  I don’t invite new people to Farcaster anymore.  I tried to onboard a lot of people at the beginning.  A core of users stayed but 90% of the artist community I helped onboard are no longer active.  It’s a graveyard of user profiles that I brought on.  A focus on how to get those users back on the platform seems like a better bet than trying to convince someone new that it makes sense for them.

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I would think it would be easier to re-activate a dormant user than find a new one as well—but then again I could totally believe there being a datapoint that says the complete opposite is actually treu

there are some very clear underlying reasons why the people I know stopped being active here (for clarity, they are mostly artists and a handful of art collectors).  Until those issues are addressed, I would imagine that most new users will hit the exact same roadblocks.  Addressing those issues will potentially bring back those that have abandoned their accounts for the time being, as well as attract new users.

would love to hear more about the underlying reasons, DCing you! 

 know that there are other platforms more conducive to artists, but do think distribution and interoperability are valuable and there may be a few clients that can address those issues directly.

btw thanks for sharing all of this, appreciate you

TL;DR

Our group has about 30+ ish folks most are still on twitter as well. Many of them have significantly cut back after the initial endorphin rush ended where about 3-7 of us are on here daily working to make this place home.

It becomes harder to since most feel the lack of growth, engagement having to give away our art, creations and things we build for almost free. This place has had ebbs and flows for me. From the shadowban screaming into the void to a power badge only to find that so many accounts follow me only about 5% seem to be real folxs looking to make a difference.

My cohort still here keeps me going and I hope I do to them as well. It’s been a hard road and these large gaps between the top 1% and others are felt more.

Hope for a change yet the only thing I can control is my own self time and reactions.
Gotta cut back, the fear of losing the hidden power badge that I worked so hard for keeps me on here much longer than I should starting to feel very unhealthy for a few dollars a day.

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

As it stands right now, Farcaster functions like most of crypto.  Your staying power is largely based on how early you were.  I probably signed up for Farcaster in February, but didn’t get active until late March.  I was early enough, but not early.  If you showed up in April or after, the odds of you being able to find traction here is very small.  The new user experience is completely different depending on when you joined.  Throw on a language barrier and many of the artists I encouraged to join after me ultimately just faded away.  The Farcaster experience never clicked for them.