If you are still here, you owe it to yourself to stop scrolling and read this article.
It hit me in all the feels. I started grabbing some quotes and had too many to choose from because so many of them hit me in the face. This articulates so much I what I haven’t been able to put into words.
“You're posting into a feed that's getting quieter. You're engaging with a community that's growing smaller. The people who remain on a platform in decline (let's be blunt about this) are, by definition, the people who didn't leave, and that group is filtered for stubbornness, ideological commitment, sunk-cost fallacy, or some combinaton of all three.
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Partly it's that Farcaster, even in its diminished state, retains something I haven't found elsewhere. The community that remains is small, but it's weighted toward people who build things and people who think carefully about what they're building. The feed isn't optimized for engagement, nobody's trying to go viral, and the conversations that happen there have a texture I associate with early internet forums (in a good way.)”
I think I’m still here for the people. I
met a lot of awesome humans through this place. I’m not sure what it will look like over the next few months, but I think there are still amazing people here and the community is worth it but I also won’t judge anyone who is ready to move on. If you do leave, please tell us where you are going so our paths can cross again.