Trigs on Warpcast

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Some ramblings: Was bopping around Italy for the last 10 days, and I only checked WC a few times. Before traveling I was checking 10 times a day or so. Is this a good or a bad thing? Should the WC feed be more addictive or is it actually a feature that the client is not so addictive? Centralized social media is incentivized to make their product extremely addictive, because at the end of the day - share price MUST go up. I know Merkle has similar incentives due to private investors, and the fact that social networks must grow to be successful - but it definitely experiences less of this pressure compared to META, SNAP, etc… Maybe slow qDAU growth is a feature not a bug. 15 years from now, I’d like to confidently encourage my children to use a client on Farcaster not Instagram, assuming it continues down the same path. Maybe sometimes, slow acceleration builds a product that is much more meaningful, lawful, and lasting than the alternative. Just zoom out. Maybe an opportunity for a new client?

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MVE- minimum viable engagement That's the best metric for a human-centric social media experience. Our attention is not a commodity to maximize on. The value of it decreased the more of it is wasted scrolling a feed.

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How does Farcaster make money then? Engagement and attention is the way to maximize returns for VCs. Pretty difficult for any start-up in general to focus on product and not growth unless they have great investors, or investors that de-prioritize growth.

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