Chasing users fleeing another platform is not a long-term valuable strategy.

Effort is better spent trying to figure out the compelling reason for people to join the network independently.

If you have that, then you can use sudden external entropy to help grow.

But sign ups for the sake of sign ups don’t matter.

What’s the compelling reason for people to join Farcaster?

/new-york by day 🗽 /latenightcrew by night :) Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮 oh and /untzuntz 😈

Totally fair, appreciate your honesty around that! For me: Farcaster is the best place to make interest-based friends on the internet

That is super powerful (and needed and differentiated) and I’d posit it’s why most existing users have stuck around

Mine was last week because Elon running X into ground and making it his right wing echo chamber.

For me it's the promise of building my portable social graph. Still need more actual usage but I haven't seen a better shot at it yet.

The belief that decentralized power removes power from the reality that we all hate. From finance  to personal hygiene I prefer the government to fuck off.
They can have a taste and build roads but I do not need a smart tooth brush that knows where I am and taxes me accordingly.