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We are announcing the next round of clanker ecosystem fund grants this morning on @gmfarcaster
Hope our Venezuelan Farcaster friends are safe. I hope everyone is. The images coming out are devastating.
We think Farcaster should be free to join, without the excessive onboarding process that forces people to use crypto directly in order to even participate. Crypto is a technology, no different than databases, queues, caches, or logging infrastructure. Weirdly, this industry has had a strange fetish for making that technology the focus rather than an implementation detail. The detail is important, but less about the how, and more about what it enables.
Farcaster I think can turn it's weakness into a strength. The weakness -- my weakness when onboarding people -- is that there are multiple hurdles you have to get a person over just to agree to try it out. Crypto alone is a huge hurdle. And everyone's exhausted and nobody wants another social account. But the strength is in how this is truly frontier stuff- tight wallet and app integrations into social media Is just so much smoother than plug-ins like metamask or anything that requires wallet connect. This is the superior crypto social experience. For the people who get the scene here, this place rules. We are here way more than X, for reasons. But for outsiders, they need a strong motivation to be here. Most people here for the crypto leave whenever the latest wellspring dries up. The social incentives are not there for them. For me as a builder and cryptoartist the incentive is clear - I'm in the arena trying things, I want to show my work and gain some public integrity. I liked what that guy I think Benny said in the @farcaster community call the other day about not wanting to see channels he can't participate in. I don't necessarily agree, but I can imagine a better social media platform where channels can be private, or at least not be shown on main. If channels could be quickly spun up for a group, it might be easier to onboard communities of people. Wouldn't it be nice to have a feed just for channels you follow? Just like we have for accounts we follow! I can't tell you the number of people I don't follow because they post certain apps or participate in certain communities that I just don't care to see. Even if I like what they say otherwise.
excited to be onboarding Degen as an additional validator node! https://farcaster.xyz/jacek/0x5069fadb
I’ve tried to onboard a few non tech natives to farcaster lately and there is such a crazy amount of unnecessary friction Asks to link an x account(about 50% of people don’t have x and immediately associates Farcaster with Elon in their heads who is controversial) Asks you to pay if you don’t have an x account(absolute no for onboarding just no full stop drop it we all know this) I don’t even know the current state of referrals, what does that do? I just know it didn’t seem to help I don’t understand why these spam filters are considered necessary for farcaster and not other social apps. These are established long solved problems. Cc @farcaster @neynar