Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Truly remarkable how despite steady growth Farcaster always gets left out of commentary like this. There is a genuine parallel universe invisibility effect beyond the cryptowall. I don’t think this is a problem to be solved. Rather, it’s a regime boundary to be respected and understood. Just as you think of your insurance spending and regular consumption spending in separate buckets, your social media attention budget has separate buckets. Your financial budget has buckets: Tax, retirement savings (including equity part of mortgage), insurance, emergency liquidity, and consumption. Your attention budget has analogous buckets. Tax = news. Retirement savings = learning. Insurance = Censorship resistant media use. Emergency liquidity = email/slack/zoom other work channels. Consumption = regular infotainment media, including social.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Mood affiliation. All crypto bad.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I don’t think that’s the whole explanation. Many partisans of each of these media think the others are bad too. And many crypto positive people also leave it out in many discussions. Including me.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
I don’t think a large number of Farcaster users say Mastodon or BlueSky user base is bad because of technical architecture choices.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I mean what bluesky and mastodon and threads people say about each other. Farcaster is not even in that room is my point. It’s outside of that discourse altogether. The other services engage with each others existence in a way fc is not included in. They may love or hate each other but mostly it doesn’t occur to them to think about fc at all
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@na
farcaster has Olympus nature? or it's not the kind of scenario fodder
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
ATProto coredevs & DWeb peeps are 1000% aware of Farcaster. ATProto cited Farcaster in their whitepaper and the CEO, Jay, was at ZCash. To be fair, Farcaster doesn't talk as much about BlueSky (and I only started paying attention until about two months ago).
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Damon Outlaw
@damon-o
It’s as Dan has said. But you’re right that FC isn’t thought about at all. Nostr to them is for the crypto bros. Mastodon mostly hated Bluesky, mostly hates Threads, both for similar but also very different reasons. Whats influential is the way that the powers of those spaces view each other. The most judgmental space is Mastodon by far.
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