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Matthew
@matthew
speaking anecdotally, I invite fewer of my friends to FC now than I did a year or two ago. Still unpacking the reasons / thoughts behind that but curious if others feel the same.
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Zach Lipp
@zachlipp
I’ve been extremely active here for 6 months. I don’t invite new people to Farcaster anymore. I tried to onboard a lot of people at the beginning. A core of users stayed but 90% of the artist community I helped onboard are no longer active. It’s a graveyard of user profiles that I brought on. A focus on how to get those users back on the platform seems like a better bet than trying to convince someone new that it makes sense for them.
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priyanka 🦉
@priyanka
a lot of people who joined in feb or after joined bc of degen first, so it became increasingly difficult to retain those artists bc the shiny object faded real quick once the tipping mechanisms kept switching up. very few stayed and did the work to grow their audience whatever their motivation. any new platform, we join we have to build from the ground up and not being willing to put in the work doesn’t make sense to me. we can’t be handed everything everywhere we go? i kept telling people don’t onboard others under the guise of hey you can make money by receiving degen tips. it’s not a forever thing. alas.
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Zach Lipp
@zachlipp
another way to frame what you said is that the risk for on-chain artists migrating from X to Farcaster in February or after was fairly low. They could dip their toes into a new ecosystem knowing there was a reward for doing so. Most people didn’t figure out the difference in communication styles between the two platforms. X is billboard style. Farcaster requires legitimate discourse. I don’t know why that transition in communication style is so hard, but it is. Many people didn’t dig deep enough into the Farcaster ecosystem to appreciate that its best features existed outside of tipping.
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priyanka 🦉
@priyanka
agreed. i wish they did. bc nothing is happening on twitter anyway. sales have been slow or none at all for most of us there, the community keeps talking about the same 15 topics in rotation and shitposts are carrying the weight of lull in the market (which is fine, ill take all the lulz) but my point is why not try to build something elsewhere? it’s why i started being active here last fall after several nudges from manan in the last 1.5 years before then.
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