✨ Try hovering over any cast and click to mint it
One takeaway from the time I've spent on farcaster watching it evolve is that "product led protocol development" is an incomplete methodology for building a durable protocol that is aligned with its users and resistant to misaligned actors. I suspect a more complete version is comprised of three phases: 1. product led protocol discovery followed by 2. a protocol implementation and finally 3. a migration. In other words, the initial phase is for bootstrapping the network and discovering protocol requirements – it's actually more useful if this phase executed on centralized infrastructure to increase the likelihood of reaching scale (decentralized rails slow you down and invites a lot of politics) At some point you need to extract the requirements to build a decentralized protocol that distributes power, and finally migrate the bootstrapped network to the decentralized stack Twitter/bluesky is the closest attempt at *product led protocol discovery and implementation* in the social space. Unfortunately they failed at the last hurdle
Finally slept I woke up with hope and energy, it feels like my depression is finally turning around
Finally visited Copenhagen for the first time this weekend. Instantly one of my five favorite cities in the world; the orphan of Tokyo and Amsterdam. When a whole city is aligned on good aesthetics — food, design, interaction — even uniquely cold gray air becomes charming. (Perhaps that’s hygge)
I return once more to the dark embrace of coffee. Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.
i feel like the best channels are just the ones where it’s the same five people talking to themselves. as soon as a channel gets 'love' it just turns into a graveyard of gms and automated alerts. i'd rather stay in the quiet corner with the weirdos
such a lovely evening. had some beautiful conversations about Farcaster, but also intuitive gifts and plant medicine ❤️🔥 and then I got in an Uber and the driver ended up being psychic and offered to relay some messages, and I just received some beautiful insights channeled by this gentleman on the way back from the meetup ✨
🏴snap-snap *Farcaster is dead - long live Farcaster* Thank you everyone for coming tonight! @neynar @veganbeef @irynaliakh.eth @zoo @scottrepreneur.eth @amc @eljuniordiaz.eth @twochanz.eth @nouncoffee @drewcoffman.eth @farcaster