Am I the only one on Farcaster who is comforted by the face that my old casts will be deleted?
i’m with you. makes me wanna triple down building an audience here even more.
nah, this is the way. I'm fairly attached to my tweet history (on my 14 year old non-web3 account anyway) but that's only because 1. it's lasted literally half my life and 2. saving that history was always part of the platform. Knowing the casts here are ephemeral takes the edge off, it feels more free
Mixed feelings! There’s definitely value in ephemerality, maybe more of the web should be based around the concept - I mean it worked for Snapchat? At the same time I’m an absolute sucker at loving old posts as mementos or small bits of reflection.
Yes and no. Ephemerality is good but it’s not currently a value implemented in the app or protocol. The app’s value are that of twitter bc it’s a copy cat in users eyes. No UI/UX indícates expiration.
I just checked mine. I still have enough storage 😂
at first sight, I was quite concerned about today but nowadays, not anymore why should I lie to myself? I don't even check out months' old posts from X, for example so, I am up for it! much better 🤝
As someone who has had a system set up to delete his tweets for years, I welcome it.
I have mixed feelings. If one click “mint cast” were a thing (with replies and all), I wouldn't care that they're otherwise deleted.
Do we use Farcaster as a communication tool or paper to write memo or mini blog? This issue depends on how to use Farcaster... Might not be a problem if Cast disappears, but Mint could be done to pin down some of the favorites.
I’ve started to become comfortable with deleting my history, specially on social apps. I recently deleted my Twitter history up to 2 years ago. I’m likely trimming again to the beginning of the year.
You shouldn’t. You won’t be able to find them, but I got them backed up :-p
I feel a little similar. I’m comforted by the fact that whatever farcaster is today it will be different in 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, etc. Knowing this allows me to let things just be. 🧘🏻♀️
I spent the first part of my career in radio and learned that ephemerality is a beautiful thing. It gives both the author and the consumer permission to grow and evolve.
Meh Still scratching my head a bit wrt limits and why it’s each metric that may be independently breached. IF this is part of an anti-spam program, let’s target bad actors not the most valuable participants.
thank you... no more 15-year-old me saying stupid shit...
