Farcaster

Farcaster is an amazing app that offers a glimpse of what the future will be like for social media apps. Farcasrer comes with blockchain features built in, and these add to the experience for the user and are never at the forefront. You are free to use farcaster as you choose, although I would say Farcaster involves a core loop of browsing the feed of posts, using embedded miniapps, discovering new content, and engaging using a very high quality built in wallet. Engaging with content on Farcaster is seamless with a built-in wallet that is easy to buy content, interact with games and miniapps, and create and monetize your own content. Being on Farcaster feels like the future, it is easy to monetize your own content, the community is positive, there are a ton of interesting niches to find and discover, and more and more miniapps are being built day by day, and you can try them seamlessly without having to leave Farcaster. It’s my favorite online community by far and I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone.

I joined Twitter in 2009 when the web felt open and wild and people were genuinely helping each other learn and explore new things. All that died off in recent years, yielding to noise, fake news, FUD and worse. Warpcast is that homebrew, human-first, make-the-web-interesting-again platform that Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon and all the others claim but simply dont nail. It just works. The conversations are authentic, long-form, intelligent as well as fun. It’s like all the virtues we lost behind walled-gardens of Twitter, Facebook, etc with a very easy, familiar onboarding and world-class, brilliant kind people ready to say hi and answer the most newbie questions. If you are familiar with Web3 and have a wallet already, you’ll be even more at-home with the best “cold-start” welcome experience I’ve ever seen across any social media platform or app. I think I might have a mastodon account somewhere. Maybe even a BlueSky? I’ve basically abandoned Twitter/x. I deleted Facebook, and Instagram/threads is only for status seekers and gym selfies. Blegh. Warpcast might still be the nerdy corner of the “social media” landscape, but there’s real great stuff happening here. See you on the inside.

As a novice I really began my web3 journey only in January after recovering from the initial brain rot of interacting with the crypto community on Twitter. Found the idea of social graphs interesting so tried out Farcaster and it’s main competitor. So far I’m quite impressed with the community on Farcaster where every other post I see is extremely thoughtful. Invite only model has its merit because a competitor while still in closed beta has given access to the wrong crowd and the platform has become incredibly spammy. I’m finding out more about *useful* web3 apps by interacting with the FC community daily. Great start and look forward to what’s in store for the future!