A positive aspect of farcaster being rooted in financialized crypto culture is that there is more willingness here to talk about statistics and quantitative analysis on *other* topics like politics, which I appreciate. Could be a big strength if discourse broadens. Most sites are default innumerate, vibes-only.

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Bluesky is refined empaths. A bunch of Lt Trois. Farcaster could be a bunch of Commander Datas. Empaths will always outnumber quants 10:1 but when a quant discourse lands a punch it tends to hit 10x harder.

Twitter of course is just internet of beefs and theater. Fediverse is isolationist mutual admiration.

I would love it if this place developed a broadly wonky culture where people make a habit of citing, questioning, and debating noisy real world numbers on all topics. Also appreciate the interest in prediction markets though that’s too gamified for me to participate in personally.