Farcaster

just wanted to share some thoughts from a fairweather farcasterer:

if i'm being brutally honest, the thing that brought me back to farcaster the last two times is "money making opportunities"

last time it was degen, this time it's all the ai coin stuff

yes i do love the platform, i love the innovation, i love the high(er) signal to noise ratio here, the fewer bots, the nicer vibes, the infinitely better customer service, the cool shit and experimentation that's always happening, the curation elements with channels + a global feed, and on and on and on

but i've *always* struggled with being active both here + on twitter, and for better or worse always end up defaulting back to twitter as it not only fills my "crypto info" tank, but also "the rest of the world" stuff

i'm so bullish on farcaster and i *really really really* hope it succeeds over a multi-decade time horizon - and maybe my not being as active here as on twitter is not helping the cause - but well it is what it is, ty for coming to my ted talk

the more farcaster deviates from twitter, the less it will have to compete with twitter for attention space. 

it's hard to be 10x better than twitter, and much easier to be an amazing place of its own.

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Agreed -- but it's very difficult not to compare it to Twitter while it basically looks and behaves like a nicer Twitter w/ benefits (or at least Warpcast does, which is what most people use)

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for sure. i’m more speaking to merkle’s frequent unwillingness to fix features from first principles because “that’s how twitter does it”