Farcaster

We're not pricing the value of Farcaster taking off. Farcaster is asking people to do normal stuff (use social media), but provides extra benefits bc it's crypto-native. Powerful onboarding tool. 

Question: How do you frame the benefits of Farcaster relative to traditional SM apps in normie-friendly language?

Depends on the person.

If they’re primarily a TikTok or IG user, forget about it until FC is much bigger.

If they’re on X or Facebook:
- social network that can’t rug pull your community
- ability to migrate apps without losing your community

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Yeah but also there are subgroups of your first group who might come over. For example a lot of political accounts, citizen journalists, satirists, artists who make provocative works, especially queer artists and raconteurs (who are disproportionately shadowbanned on Insta and TikTok) who might come over to decentralized social apps and become a motivation for their followings to sign up as well

writing stuff about tech + decentralization over on blog.thumbsup.me

Yeah. I agree with your points for sure. I often say that for many the decentralization aspect isn’t enough. But the thing about network effects is they’re really hard to predict because they tend to snowball. Like people don’t come over one by one but sort of in clusters

Good point. I was thinking more about the average passive user than people trying to build niche audiences. Seems like the latter could gradually motivate their fans to come with them.