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yuga.eth
@yuga
It feels like Farcaster is starting to lean left in ways I personally don't really love.
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yuga.eth
@yuga
Some of it is low quality election-related posting. Another part is this “crypto is actually leftist” vibe (libertarian socialism, anarchism, DAOs as governance, etc.). I have 0 problem with people who believe in those things organizing on here. But if that becomes the dominant ethos of Farcaster, it will alienate me and, I suspect, many others.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
1. I lean leftist and I suspect we have more in common than is immediately obvious (personally I feel there is a lot of overlap/compatibility/synergy between seemingly-conflicting ideologies if only we abandon labels for a second), happy to explore that more if you're into it. :) 2. FWIW I feel that Farcaster as a whole is moderately anti-leftist. I'd say the majority of people are terrified of leftist labels and aren't willing to even entertain their underlying concepts independently. (See screenshot) 3. I am curious to hear more about what makes you feel alienated, though?
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yuga.eth
@yuga
RE: 3 - my opinion is that crypto is a radically anti-leftist technology. It rejects the collective - most importantly the state - in favor of the individual. That’s part of why I am in crypto. So when I see leftism on a crypto-forward app like Farcaster, I believe it’s self-defeating.
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I don’t know. Crypto started out as a libertarian movement but it has largely accepted the primacy of the state. Bitcoin went from ambitions of an alternative financial system to integration in the current state-regulated tradfi system. What are crypto lobbyists circling around DC to “regulate us please” doing, if not accepting dominance of the state? The story of crypto isn’t the growing dominance of the left but the self-subjugation of the right.
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