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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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So that leaves us to financial opportunities. This is where I have seen a huge advantage on Farcaster over X. However, this is where the biggest challenges also exist within the art community. There are many unspoken rules that people are expected to know when they get here. In reality, it’s impossible unless you have someone or a team who is willing to stake their own reputation on you, and you will need a lot of help, like, a lottttt of help. In pursuit of financial rewards, you need to somehow, some way, avoid being called a spammer. But, you need to do this in every ecosystem too. You need to avoid the spam label on Warpcast, but you also need to do this within whatever tipping token ecosystems you are participating in. continued below…
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I shared quite a lot in a long thread here replying to @vortac so tagging some others here that might be interested in reading or sharing their perspectives. Feel free to ignore as well but I really shared freely so wanted to give some others I value a chance to share their valuable opinions too. @sunnysangwan @pichi @angelikakollin @reneecampbell @hind @manuwilliams @eriks @jonathancolton @marcelonada
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Loved your takes on this, read every comment. 200 $degen
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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 so much for your detailed replies, Zach. Your contribution is much appreciated. Many interesting thoughts and important feedback. Unfortunately I have to reply tomorrow, day went a bit different than originally planned.
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