I had yet another convo with normie friend about the awesomeness of farcaster and found myself dipping my voice when I mention crypto, waving my hands around to say “it’s not a scam! Well you just have to avoid certain areas..” Feels like I’m explaining an up and coming neighborhood (which is also a bit wrong)
tedditSo the topic for discussion is how y’all web3 natives are dealing with that (or not) bc it feels like.. such a shame to be embroiled and every time I see a new coffeezilla with the latest crypto scam I wince Oh the other feeling is the model minority one, or when I try to tip extra to undo stereotypes 😰
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i think we need to figure out a way to talk about Farcaster without discussing crypto. think about credit cards or Apple Pay — no one brings up the technology, just the value prop. neighborhood may be a bit wrong but imo more accurate than crypto :)
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the tricky thing is that the more you explain it, the more expectations the other person has
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I do not feel that anymore. Where necessary, I just explain what infrastructure is in general, & relate to the internet as a concept in a couple of friendly sentences, then introduce crypto-economics/ -systems as a thought-line, & introduce Farcaster— & in normie-speak. if the person makes me defensive, i just stop.
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I usually use the comparison of "owning your network" vs not on other socials. "Imagine if your email list were portable as followers on other social networks, and vice versa"
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Like describing Times Square “it used to filled with con men & hookers but now there’s Disney musicals and Krispy Kreme — you’ll love it!” sounds about right. I say Farcaster is a community of builders & creatives working on the next generation of the internet. At least that’s why I like it.💜
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Yes crypto does have a bad reputation everywhere, I do think we will have to deal with it until we make a better product than what the scams did to the people
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My go-to heuristic to describe Warpcast is that its twitter minus the toxic aspects. While not entirely true, getting people to envision something they are at least passively familiar with goes a long way to bypass the crypto aspect to start. I'll always talk up the quality of people & conversations here over the tech.
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