tomato
@tomatoxyz
(3/3) It's the same thing you can see on this Github markdown file that a16z put together (and I guess they have billions in funding?) - it was updated a month ago but contains a bunch of stuff that seems to be dead: https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster Even worse/sadder/more ironic than that is that this really cool tool I came across called FarMap that exists to "explore the Farcaster ecosystem" seems to be broken and stuck in an infinite loading loop: https://www.farmap.io/ Why doesn't Farcaster or the community have ownership of it to make it keep working? What went wrong with incentives? It didn't break yesterday - it was the same weeks ago. Again, many of these things are excusable for hobbyist and purely community-lead projects but when massive protocols have massive VC funding and you notice things like this time and time again (I've seen it on many projects, not just Farcaster) it raises serious questions about the hot potato game and actual community ownership of a protocol.
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Trigs
@trigs
Welcome to Decentralized. Which, in reality, just means nobody's responsible for anything. We've been spoiled by what we think should be expected from teams with funding. I'm sure Merkle will get their shit fully together in time, but the reality of today is that it's still just a scrappy little upstart that is riding fast and loose trying to catch a 'wave'. I don't blame them, because we are about to watch the metric shitton of money it's going to cost to pull Lens out of the post-scene grave. I'm pretty sure their feedback strategy is super specific filters and they monitor numbers and anytime anything trips a breaker they zero in on it. You see it happen, suddenly someone from the team comes in with a hot pulse survey and they engage very deeply with anyone and everyone with thoughts. What they don't do is waste time engaging with complaints that just don't have the number to justify the distraction. It's a system that works unless it doesn't, like you're describing in your recent posts. We shall see!
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