Loved this
@nickysap ! It really speaks to my experience. For context, I got on FC in Jan 2023 (I rep the โold guardโ title pretty proudly ๐). Iโve been pretty active ever since but lately Iโve felt pretty meh about the direction things are going.
Thereโs been this shift from โcome for the social network and stay for everything built on top of itโ to โcome for the finance with a sprinkle of social.โ It feels like FC originally attracted people who genuinely believed in decentralized social and were eager to build on that but now itโs drifting toward becoming just another financial interface.
As that happens, the culture and fun that made interactions feel real start to get chipped away. Itโs in the subtle things like swapping out custom likes and the heavier push toward tokens all of which bring in a much more fickle demo.
Donโt get me wrong, I understand the need to pivot (boy have I pivoted to save companies). Iโve built and failed enough to know how hard it is to find a user base that truly scales, especially with venture capital pressure hanging over decisions. But pivots shouldnโt come at the cost of that core FC vision of building primitives that actually make decentralized social valuable.
Maybe tokens are the right bet and a year from now weโll all look back and say โgood call teamโ. But right now, it feels like the decentralized social mission is taking a backseat and thatโs the part that doesnโt sit right with me.
Itโs unclear what comes next but Iโm hoping we can tilt things back toward more genuine social interaction rather than the heavy handed financial ๐
