Enjoying farcaster.xyz
Probably the most interesting alt to twitter right now. Familiar UX but genuine paradigm shift under the hood. If you aren’t knee-jerk allergic to crypto, you should try it. Need a wallet and invite from to sign up, but no money needed.
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Having tried mastodon seriously, including running an instance, I don’t think it’s a good alternative. I suspect federation is fun but an un-twitter pattern. It is to twitter what multicultural models are to melting pot models. Twitter has been the best sort of melting pot.
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The killer feature of twitter is the global-feed melting pot serendipity which is really hard to replicate with fediverse cross-server talk.
Melting-pot serendipity takes scale (random “over-hearing” statistics), but FC shows it kicks in at much smaller scales than I thought.
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Competitors that already have scale (Instagram etc) really don’t have the right architecture to trigger twitter type dynamics. They have their own kinds but ime not a substitute for twitter’s. Also you want to make a move to the future not the past. Platforms —-> Protocols.
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Shitjecture:* The difference between a protocol and a platform is that on a protocol you collect rent when people are on the move in some way, while on a platform you can collect rent even when people are sitting around doing nothing
* shitpost-conjecture
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Whatever your specific loyalties or hostilities to musk, and whatever your emotional or pragmatic attachment to any following you’ve built here, there’s more than just political shifts (feudal —> monarchical platform dynamics) underway. There is a technological shift underway.
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Platforms are lava now. You want things that don’t lend themselves as easily to “fixed real-estate” metaphors. Protocols allow anyone to add “territory” (email servers are an old example though now a bad one due to spam-forced oligopoly). FC plans something similar called Hubs
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“The platform is lava” 
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You’ll never find a *politically* perfect place to go. But you can at least try to move in the evolutionary direction the tech is slouching towards. Protocols are the future. Platforms as we understand them are the past.
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Agree - although it wouldn't be difficult for them to replicate it. The problem is that the type of users it attracts are very different from twitter. So the structure attracts a certain type of user -> platform gets tuned to that type -> more users of that type. (1/2)
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