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Really wish desktop had integrated wallet experience... Heard it's coming later though so excited for it.

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underpromise and never deliver

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I didn't know you could quote two messages at once, I want to see what happens when I quote that message now.

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@drewcoffman.eth

crucial manifesto against stagnation that reframes the value of bubbles as generative forces rather than just destructive ones. the Apollo program was a bubble, Bitcoin was a bubble, even Xerox PARC was a bubble. nails how self-reinforcing optimism creates futures that couldn't exist without collective delusion first. best insight: truly transformative tech never appears as "5% better" versions of existing stuff. cars weren't better horses, and crypto isn't just banking with extra steps. the authors make a compelling case that meaningful progress often requires "definite optimism" — concrete visions that catalyze collective action rather than vague hopes for GDP growth. makes you realize that transcendent projects require both individualism and collective vision, which explains why innovation is dying in our hyper-regulated present. essential for understanding why sometimes you need irrational exuberance to build anything worth building.

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People in this world are doing great things by just putting themselves out there. They have cracked brand deals, made podcasts with top CEOs, launched an amazon special, published books - all by doing what they do but in public. Put yourself out there. Share your thoughts, your videos—one day, the cringe will turn into a life you once thought was impossible.

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Where do images etc uploaded to Farcaster currently get hosted?

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lemon3 is an open source program that uses IPFS and Farcaster to allow decentralized file hosting and sharing. It's a mini Farcaster client and an IPFS node, and allows uploading and downloading files. Lots of rough edges, this is the mvp, but I'm very excited. https://blog.vrypan.net/2025/03/23/lemon3-farcaster-ipfs-decentralized-file-sharing/

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Rhocoin: https://reaction.la/security/manifesto/vision.html Cryptocurrency you've probably never heard of...

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This 1st one is very dependent on what kind of users you want. People like to claim that it results in the most mobile users possible - and while this is true this doesn't mean that they will be high quality users. And while its true that the signup flow being forced via mobile will result in the app being more "sticky" due to notifs there is a strong argument that can be made that desktop users are higher quality and provide better content. I realize that Far/warpcaster allows for both with the signup process being on mobile, but smartphone-only apps seem like a terrible idea. In my own experience the lack of a seamless desktop wallet experience (i.e. no extension required like on Polymarket) makes using Frames annoying because I don't want to use a wallet extension.

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It sucks in the US and Europe but I have heard it is amazing in Asia (China and Japan specifically)

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It depends on the product. If it is subscription based and you're just delivering a relatively consistent product then yes, its just users gained vs. users lost. But if its a social network or similar, there are generally the 1-3% of users who generate 95%+ of activity - you always want to keep them consistent or grow them because they're the ones that keep people coming back or get new people to join. TLDR: "retention" isn't just a number on a spreadsheet sometimes, there are subsets of users who are 100x more valuable than ordinary users. They are also way harder to attract and way harder to keep happy.

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Interesting... I guess something on the landing page that at least shows a hive of activity might entice users a bit more then, something like: https://firehose3d.theo.io/ (not necessarily an elaborate 3D thing like that, but at least something showing interest). Many web3 websites/apps I have used require signup and then you join and it is a ghost town (I only go through the sign up part because I'm researching different projects, not because I'm an actual user)

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gatekeeping entry to communities usually leads to higher quality users and contributions. Avatars are a bit of an annoying one because people don't always have an image handy that they want to use. But I have seen some apps that require you to select interests and a whole bunch of other bullshit that is needlessly frustrating and feels like it shouldn't prevent the user from skipping forward straight to the actual website/app so they can discover it themselves. People don't need an infantile tutorial on how to find things in this day and age. I think the balance is between letting people see an app/website before they can sign up and in the case of warpcast (i.e. when I go to warpcast.com) you can't currently do it (unless you follow a direct link to a cast). That is -much- worse that requiring an avatar for signup because it forces people to sign up just to see what is on warpcast - you probably unknowingly lost way more than a "0.1% dropoff" because of that.

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Is there a github repo for warpcast where we can make issues for UX/UI issues, suggestions and improvements? Or what is the best way to do that?

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I do like Farcaster but my feed contains a lot of casino looking stuff. "casino stuff" obviously attracts a lot of users and gets TXs up in the short term, but in my own personal experience on another project those users tend to be low quality and it can end up leaving a bit of a negative appearance of a project (to new users) and can overshadow genuine/HQ contributions. If you get too much of the airdrop/casino crowd it can dominate things (IMHO) "If I was the king of farcaster for a day" I would personally work on surfacing frames that aren't as focused on purely speculative value (particularly casino-esque stuff) and also maybe consider prioritizing the v2 channel spec because it can supercharge building mini-communities which can generate a lot of intangible value. I think there's space for some very interesting stuff with channels. I'm still exploring though and excited to see where farcaster goes! @dwr.eth

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The true secret of web3: make a project with such an esoteric name and design that no one knows what in the fuck it actually does unless they go on a wild goose chase across a dozen different websites and 14 github repos. Make sure that all account descriptions are as vague as possible. And it is generally always something that is extremely reductive. https://warpcast.com/tomatoxyz/0x6665e4a9

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Worse than having governance captured by people who may have dubious intentions is to have governance taken over by people who don't contribute at all and just want to enact Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely."

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