Zach Lipp on Warpcast

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Please join the discussion, would love to hear your opinions: I'm constantly thinking about how to improve this platform for artists, collectors and art enjoyers alike. I kind of left Twitter/X for various reasons, since Musk took over and turned it into a propaganda machine. But whenever I return there for a quick update, my art feed is really top notch. Almost everybody who is active here, also posts or cross-shares frequently on X as well. But more important, a lot of artist I want to follow and I want to be informed about only post there (and maybe on Bluesky, Mastodon, IG as well, don't know). Point is, they all have a Farcaster account, but turned their backs on the platform at some point or never really got into it. I would therefore be delighted if they were to return and exploit Farcaster's potential.

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- What is better solved on other platforms? What are currently the biggest pain points? Onboarding, I onboarded a lot of artists in April of 2024. Zero are still here. I don’t say this lightly. Zero. Why would an artist come to Farcaster or another social network? Two reasons that come to mind - better visibility (they feel seen) or better financial opportunities. I have spent a year here full time and have put so much time and energy into Farcaster, I would say more than 99% of others who came on at the same time. I currently have less visibility than I did when I left X (7900 followers on Farcaster vs 8300 followers on X), but it doesn’t bother me because of the financial rewards. I’ve also been able to grow to 7300 followers on Rodeo which now feels like my strongest social profile. At current rates, I will have more followers on Rodeo than either Farcaster or X, within weeks. continued below…

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Absolutely appreciate you for everything you do here, Zach. I'm sorry to hear that many efforts to get friends and fellow artists on board ultimately came to nothing. Same happened to me, but also many of them have stayed (which I'm insanely grateful for). Adding to your reasons to check out Farcaster as an artist I could think of: community, web3-nativeness, open protocol you can build on and basically have alternatives at hand if the big platforms develop in a direction that you do not want to support or simply navigate themselves into insignificance (myspace). Rodeo is doing an incredible job, but as regards followings they build on Farcaster's social graph. The extension of your social connections to a whole ecosystem is another benefit.

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Thank you, Tim. I don't feel like the efforts to get friends and fellow artists on board ultimately came to nothing. It would be unfair to completely negate our shared experiences over the past year. Over the long haul, nothing is set in stone. There are also plenty of people who I have run into on Farcaster who I knew from a previous era on X. Rodeo is a reunion of sorts, as well. Also, I onboarded at the same time as @sunnysangwan, who has built @pkok. He is still here and building. I love the relationships that I have built here and those that I have furthered. I completely acknowledge all that you are saying about Rodeo and the Farcaster social graph. This was my biggest advantage and I am grateful to Farcaster. I found out about it months before others on X because I was on Farcaster. Those other reasons that you provide to being on Farcaster are very real and also valid. I agree with it all. I hope that my shares in this thread aren't coming across as complaints but more as observations.

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