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Hey, my dear ones! Lately, Iโve been finding myself thinking more and more about change. It rarely feels like something good in the moment, but it almost always turns out to be part of growth. It feels familiar. First come the people and the conversations. Then the tools, optimization, and numbers. And at some point, thereโs a realization that without real communication, a space starts to feel empty, even if everything works perfectly on a technical level. I believe in Farcaster. And I hope that whatโs happening now becomes more than just another phase, but a point after which conversation here becomes central again.
๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ข๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ Farcaster was born as something different. Not just as a protocol, not just as technology, but as a social space. A place where conversation, identity, and connection carried more weight than a wallet balance. That's why the decision to shift away from the social aspect and focus almost entirely on the wallet feels, at the very least, misguided. Not because wallets don't matter. They do. They're necessary. They're part of the future. But a social network isn't sustained solely by financial infrastructure. It's sustained by people who talk, create, disagree, show themselves, and stay. When the focus becomes solely on the wallet, the implicit message is dangerous: that someone's value lies more in what they own than in what they contribute. That belonging is measured in tokens, not in connections. Communities aren't built this way. They're emptied this way. The social is fragile, uncomfortable, unpredictable. But it's also the only thing that generates real meaning. Without that, any networkโno matter how decentralizedโends up being just a fancy interface for looking at numbers. Many came to Farcaster looking for conversation, identity, and humanity. Not another app where the wallet is the passport and silence is the dominant language. Perhaps there's still time to correct course. To put people back at the center and technology as a support, not the protagonist. Because when you lose the social aspect, you don't just lose engagement. You lose the reason why it was worth being there. And without that, no wallet is enough.
2 mistakes I made from the last 2 years 1st: Not taking profits. (I made good profit in degen but never booked profits, thinking I'll book after it makes 2x more, but it never did.) 2nd: Buying altcoins without knowing where we are in the cycle. ( I shifted my funds from altcoins to altcoins like first I bought $20k worth of degen, Ethfi and Flt and I book loss in them and shifted my rest $14k into IO net, degen and Deai again I booked loss at them and shifted $5k into degen and at last down 50% in degen and now all those altcoins are down 80$ to 90% so my mistake here is after booking loss at first round I have to wait and analys current market before investing again into altcoins if I had just holded my usdc insted of altcoins I could have made over $20k but there is also 1 imortand thing like we never seen altseason in 2025 like we had in 2017 and 2021 if I had used this method in 2017 or 2021 then I had definaly have made over $100k but things never goes as you expect and funny I think market never moved in 2025 because I got more mature lol. So I am going to learn from those mistakes and am going to make good decisions next time.
This is a massive call to action and I am 100% behind the sentiment. Weโve built something special here, a real home where gratitude actually means something. The "pure wallet" direction feels like losing the soul of the place. If the captains don't want to steer the ship back to social, then itโs time to start building those new rails. Youโve got the horsepower and the pack is ready to back you up. Letโs see who steps up to keep this fire burning!
To my dearest FC captains and local heroes @rish @topocount.eth @grin @bob @mcilroyc @shreyas-chorge @dish to name but a few. Please see the opportunity The Base App just gifted you - ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ-๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ. We love this place to bits. Itโs our home. Our comfort zone. A warm blanket of kindness and gratitude. Please backpedal on the โpure walletโ idea and dive back into social. CT is a swamp. We deserve better. Remember, when one door closes, you can always turn around and reopen it. Thatโs how doors work. If you ๐๐๐โ๐ก plan to step back into that role, then @jacek , this is your cue to reignite the fire under degen. And if no one intends to step up, please say so in the comments because Iโll immediately start a quest to help build a new crypto social app on existing rails, keeping the best bits of all worlds and improving the rest. Not a joke. I donโt know how to do all of it, but thanks to the real friends Iโve made here with insane skills, Iโve got a lot of horsepower to make it happen and probably skyrocket their careers. ๐๐งก
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