I think if Farcaster wants to become the social status game of Ethereum‘s who is who, it needs to get rid of the Farcaster aristocracy. Otherwise, what status game is it implementing? Not clear to me

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I mean, isn’t the whole point that you can create different clients with different algos / rules / etc.? Not sure on the premise either, to me Forecaster is a viable alternative for neighbourhoods to prop up and create cozy spaces without being optimised for ads…

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Gaby goldberg hasn‘t even posted in 2 months, still 10x from me 🃏

Why does it have to be strictly Ethereum’s who is who?

I‘m already doing many things that also are collaborative with my own money towards FC in which I have little equity. I‘m doing my best to take over responsibility for the things I can help to fix. Despite setbacks, I try to get up, but some things can only be addressed through influence and criticism.

you can build your own kiwi client and promot yourself to all signups like elon does with twitter

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Let me try to define it

- you have a lot of followers on here
- you have gained a majority of these followers by your social closeness to others that have a lot of followers here
- the system has (at one point) recommended you more than others (e.g. invite lists, activity badge, Dan likes all of your posts)

https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0x8f74c7ec

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I'm not gonna deny being like that. However, I think there is more in my cast than just that. I really think FC could be greater by letting go of the current establishment or anyways but allowing others to rise to fame.

The only problem is externality pricing.

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I don‘t count myself as part of them. Let me be straussian and say: I think my membership has been tested and I was rejected because I‘m an enfant terrible that poses too much risk upon entry. Given that you have 5k more followers and since you present as fairly „brand-safe,“ you‘re more in than me.

Are we part of the aristocracy? Because if so i agree.

I'm hoping new feed algorithms will make this better, but I also think that this will naturally happen as new clients emerge and new ways of tracking relationships emerge

But who will replace the aristocracy? :-)

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There are many ways to deal with the status inflation :) Added @sriramk.eth's essay about this subject to kiwi 🥝

Hey Tim. Interesting prompt but I kinda don’t agree with the premise that Farcaster wants to become the social status game of Ethereum‘s who is who. None of the messaging I’ve heard from farcaster founders has ever made it seem this is an outcome they are interested in 💭

been saying this but I think it's not important till around 30-50K total users, fwiw i don't think many of the "aristocracy" accounts are actually competitive so they should fall off after a bout a year of having their hands held for growth (btw i gained 50 followers in the last hour by mass following)