Purple

Purple’s goal is to proliferate and expand the Farcaster protocol and ecosystem.

So, this happened. For too long, I was tied to my follower count on X. Letting go wasn't easy, even though I value composability more. Ironically, I fell into the very trap I warned others about—an 'Icarus moment,' getting too close to the allure of validation and losing sight of what truly matters.

Artist, Designer & Technologist → epr.net

in what way is twitter still validating to users such as yourself? open question; haven't been a user in quite awhile and lost touch.

oh gotcha. so follower count specifically or engagement in general?

twitter is an interesting quandry. engagement is... odd... over there. anecdotally, engagement looks too low for high-follow accounts and too high, too often, for weird small partisan accounts.  

those "growth" numbers are important to users tho and twisting them twists their expectations. musk and co know this and use it effectively to keep people on-platform imo.

well; the metric itself was validating. Twitter just happened to be where I built that audience from 81 followers to 15k when I began my cryptoart life in 2018 (lurking) and 2019 (participating).

replies and engagement sucks over there. My followers count keeps growing there but no value.