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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tomato
@tomatoxyz
Yeah I can appreciate that. I can appreciate their approach and have worked on a similar project that didn't really end up blossoming so I definitely understand that attention and time are finite resources. I do personally find it interesting to see projects that are nowhere near perfect and I get my energy from projects that react in a way that responds to efforts to improve things. I think the problem is that oftentimes many projects optimize their response and resources towards what they think is important, which usually ends up seemingly geared at catering to generic users at the expense of HQ and harder to acquire users. My view is that if you satisfy a couple of hundred of the HQ users then you will naturally get millions of users following - those users are of course more expensive and time consuming to satisfy but they will end up being extremely loyal. And by setting a gold standard with HQ, hard to acquire users you hopefully instill in them the same standard and it trickles down in everything.
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