Farcaster

The limiting factor for Farcaster’s growth is the supply of high-quality interesting / entertaining organic content.

Most people who are focused on creating content optimize for networks with large existing audiences because while hard to break through, the upside is massive.

Solve for X.

The interface could create opportunities to highlight quality older content, to reduce the recency bias and give further incentive to invest in detailed and quality content creation here, despite the smaller audience than elsewhere.

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Twitter-like UX is useful because of real-time. The half-life of casts (even good ones) is short.

Evergreen better for blog posts.

highlights, pins, bookmarks. this isn’t as true of twitter anymore.

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Twitter is all about real-time. It's why it's survived despite all the Elon turmoil.

One day perhaps you’ll agree that lightweight blogging enabled by threads and longcasts to an enduring publicly indexable database permits creation of valuable medium and long term content, in addition to realtime short duration content. Being a reliable place to post high signal text attracts eyeballs, writers, and devs. A public goods version of twitter should swallow blogging and Q&A platforms and be a source of valuable tokens for AI training.

Requires a different UI approach. But definitely an opportunity to start a Quora skin for Farcaster content today.

Even without a new client, just making clear to people: look google is deleting accounts if you don’t log in for 2 years, twitter db is not reliable, substack will prob be acquired by verizon or msft eventually, your static site requires a credit card payment every year and frameworks you use need updates. just use fc to publish text and rest easy.

To be fair if you don’t renew your Farcaster storage your casts will also be deleted, it’s not a write once store forever situation

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inb4 farcaster makes no long term data storage guarantees and this remains an unsolved problem.

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But isn’t that true? I agree with a lot of what you’re saying but Farcaster isn’t “forever storage” like you’re describing

Eh come on, don’t water down a good take by tacking on some unsubstantiated BS

It’s okay to just admit that you took it a step too far there, otherwise weakens the whole thing

Is questioning your logic considered rude? I am just struggling to understand how paying for Farcaster storage is any different from paying for website hosting and when I asked you chose to shrug it off rather than provide a real answer.

Like I said, I agree with a lot of the points you made but that doesn’t mean I can’t ask a question around a claim with flawed logic. Let’s all keep each other intellectually honest here, it’s how we avoid becoming an echo chamber.

i was aware that farcaster does not promise to store data long term when casting the op, thus the inb4 casted at the same time, anticipating and preempting pedantic replies like yours. it is worth imagining farcaster as an enduring blog alternative even if today’s protocol does not fully afford it. please don’t be rude thanks.