I’m on Farcaster. I’m on Lens. I’m on Bluesky. I’m on Mastodon. I’m on Twitter. So what’s next? Is this back to the days when all the social media were competing for the feed? What is the differentiator that makes one of these social feeds shine over the others?
The people + net new behavior enabled by app / protocol features
I’d agree with dan - the people. But in the end Twitter aggregated so many groups of people…
I think we’ve entered the era of niche social networks. I don’t think either of the mentioned platforms or protocols are competing between them.
Techies over indexing on network and missing the social. Everyone will go where their friends are, segmentation/tribalism can be healthy.
They all have very different theories about what makes a great social network. “The network design has economic consequences” and we will see these networks diverge over time because of these choices.
It‘s looking (to me at least) like the future of social will be more or less siloed with a lot riding on political affinities in the near-term, and probably in the longer-term orientations around AI/trans-humanism become a dividing line
One of these social media sites has this https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=JjDsRN89sIA&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
Vibes: Twitter is to Farcaster what LinkedIn is to Twitter. Notice some active Farcasters are still on Twitter, but mainly for PR and announcements.
We need one interface to broadcast everywhere (and monitor)
I'm a firm believer that by 2030, everyone will have their own blockchain node running on their phone and will leverage handshake, atprotocol and farcaster for composability.
What if social media is actually just entirely unnecessary? It’s a recent invention, and it has viral growth properties but there are plenty of people who don’t engage and live ok lives. What if “cozy web” chat servers and old school email and blogs were enough?
Check near.social, not just a social feed, web3 native discovery platform 👀 since you can build widgets farcaster and lens posts could show up there too.
This is also my question, though I'm not on Bluesky Surely network effects throw us up 1-3 winners for different use cases. UX, community, cool kids and composability probably are winning features - with an emphasis on cools kids and UX (?)
I’ll be going on an FC invite spree post drop next week. Just wait.
Which ones can you contribute to? People are used to taking as much as they can and never giving anything back. This makes the community more collaborative, since we are all in this together and will share the benefits. These benefits will become clearer, as time goes on and the protocol develops in this way.
that's why I was hoping more protocol could build using ipld (ceramic and bluesky did), which could improve interopability
Tweeted something very similar: https://twitter.com/mikewchan/status/1648337755674484736 Are we too early in decentralized social to be trying new formats?
My 2 cents https://warpcast.com/marcomaroni/0x472ec8
Where are you getting the most engagement? That's the one that shines for you.
Haven’t tried Bluesky and Mastodon but of the others you mention I like Farcaster the most by far. Perfect sweet spot between decentralization and good UX imo. Lens still not good enough UX, Twitter not decentralized enough
Oh no, I just got here and there’s more? Which ones do you recommend for someone into NFTs (+web3)
Quality. Think of a feed that delivered the optimal use of your attention (both for perception and expression). Optimal- the right people, the right topics, most clear, insightful, honest.
Look up Feeds network, 100% decentralized = no invite.. Own your data :)
I don't open apps often enough for the feed to matter to me, it honestly depends on which ones notify for posts I care about without spamming me with ones I don't. I try to help it by liking and maybe recasting the things I want to see more of. Still waiting on Bluesky access but don't think I'm missing much yet. :)
You missed nostr lol But ya that’s the thing. We’re all just recreating what already exists Sure it’s. a great MVP But we need something brand new There’s a word for that type of shift (I read it in a medium article not too long ago) Anywho - it needs: Social interaction Micro payment Media upload Fun
