What do people think of the idea that Farcaster might be *too polite*? Like, people love to rail against the toxicity of twitter, but ultimately it's a PvP MMORPG and lots of people really enjoy the PvP - if not participating, then at least seeing some fireworks in the background...

Yeah fc is boring because it seems people on here mostly like to talk about NFTs and post pictures of food.

Hey gang - I minted a couple of Castaways earlier to test some bots and things but I already have plenty.

If you haven't minted 1 because of price or some other reason reply or send me a message and I'll send over. 

2 to give out. 

(plus this will getcha an Expanded mint)
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Okay I've been on Farcaster for many months now but I finally have to ask
What is the lore here

I'm active here, on Lens and Twitter.

I love how people are here. No bots, real people with real interactions.  

More importantly: people disagree and respect each other. We have back the so lost netiquette.

I  really hope Farcaster keeps it like this. Quality over quantity.

Groupchat = village
Twitter = empire
Farcaster = city


Cast by @vbuterin abt “politeness” reminds me of the Greek city (“polis”). A city needs a specific size:


1. Big enough that it can defend itself (unlike a village)

2. Small enough that citizens can potentially know each other (unlike an empire)

It will happend when Farcaster became more popular 😌🤷‍♂️

Farcaster is like coming back home, sitting by the fireplace and listening to a great podcast. I use both platforms extensively but I seek shelter here. I'd love to see more users sure, with very different backgrounds here, but let the network grow organically, attracting those who are looking for something different.

Excuse my ignorance, I'm not very technical. I gratefully received the invite from Dan Romero the other day and signed up for warpcast.

During sign up I received a serf phrase and what looked like a wallet address. Did I actually create another wallet when creating my Farcaster account?

Haha, I'm sure this will inevitably happen as Farcaster gets more users. With quantity comes crazy people and competition for attention

I think it’s also because the farcaster community was curated vs a free for all

Twitter can be the Colosseum. Spectators satisfy their bloodlust and schadenfreude by watching the main characters fight it out.

A healthy society needs more than a Colosseum though. Farcaster can be the main park or library.

True. The lens airdrop hype has certainly helped amplify its awareness - just look at # of casters who talked about getting non-trivial offers on their Lens NFTs.

On a related topic, I've been struggling to send out invites to people who I think would appreciate FC. Posting more on bird should prob help

I feel the struggle re sending out invites. 

I essentially rebranded and hit the reset button on Twitter when I decided to focus my web3 presence on art rather than as a speculator. 

This was around the time I joined Farcaster and as a result I don't have a large Twitter network to leverage.

I don't either. Never posted that much on Twitter.

Re. invites, I think FC has yet to find the top of its growth funnel. The average web3 people I talk to simply have no idea what FC is, so hard to convince them to jump ship. (@dwr recently talked about trying to recruit college users & DAOs, so let's hope it works.)

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nothing against pvp.

It‘s simply oversaturated with bait, dense, worst assuming exchanges and a lot of bitterness. That‘s not a pvp i enjoy to involve myself in.

Not worth the fireworks if a stranger is shouting in the same ear you triyng to listen to the conversation to.

FC more polite than twitter, not too

I did too, and I can certainly post more over there as well.

One thing I've noticed about Lens, (which I don't hold in super high regard atm) is that - partly due to incentives - there's massive Twitter chatter and thus more hype. 

Hype isn't bad when you're building something as cool as FC.

Farcaster is cozy 🤗 and full of brilliant builders.

BUT

Farcaster needs evangelists to grow.

It may not be the instinct of builders to proselytize but I'd challenge everyone active here to spread the word on Twitter, Lens etc. 

Expand beyond the insular bubble

Memes, images, invitations, whatever feels natural!

I'm really split because I love what the community is currently. It feels like a big group chat once you follow enough people and I want to share that amazing experience with people. 

But as the community grows you will face all the same problems of spam and abuse social networks fall prey too.

as @dwr has pointed out a few times is that someone could build a client that gates for FID so that anyone who loves Farcaster in its current state could essentially freezes Farcaster in time (right now for example) to preserve those vibes.

Who had Buterin taking the crown from @nonlinear in the biggest mild inciter to violence on their 2023 Farcaster Bingo card

warpcast.com/vbuterin/0x9cc301

I've almost stopped posting on Twitter all together now that most of my time is spend here. But this reminds me we need to continue proliferating wherever the audience is

I come from a country where polarization has gotten into the Supreme court. I prefer polite people helping each other build cool stuff. Low-key I want farcaster to be invite only long term.

1000% 

In the immediate they need to achieve escape velocity beyond the Farcaster walls.

I like the behaviour dichotomy between the twitter and Farcaster.

Clear thoughts, evidence backed discourse is how we should aim to communicate at all times

It could be, but my opinion is farcaster community is made of people with similar ideas and similar views. Almost the whole community is web3-focused. As the community grows, there will probably be more arguments and debates, hopefully quality ones.

So we’re talking super memes here
We’re talking memes of mass destruction

Honestly any memes will do. 

I've seen vanishingly few Farcaster memes on Twitter.

Recently FC/Warpcast meme culture has been flourishing.. you love to see it - especially compared to early days where FC was more like LinkedIn.

Memes reinforce group cohesion. 

But the group must grow... or else risk stagnation.

I was listening to the Purple 🟪 Web3 Galaxy Brain Twitter Spaces conversation yesterday and @ccarella brought up a conversation he had with @jacob where he talks about how we don't have enough memes that we share outwardly - that to proliferate FC, we need to use Twitter to expand reach. Totally agree.

@jessepollak's Twitter post inviting people to engage in a Farcaster Q&A, with invitations offered, is a great example 

Most of us don't have that kind of reach but

Lots of people are searching 'Farcaster' on Twitter and some days it's just a handful of us posting in Twitter world

Let them know there's a party

@df / farcaster