Living my life often feels like hopping from one Monty Python sketch to another, each moment utterly absurd and disjointed from the next. It leaves me in awe at the sheer unpredictability of it. Itโs hilariously absurd and inexplicably fun. I love it.
I grew up watching the Iranian version of Monty Python and started reading Camus when I was 14. I donโt know if these two only contributed to how I interpret my subjective experience or if they hyperstitiously caused it. Regardless, long ago I found joy in eternally rolling the boulder uphill, embracing its absurdity and finding happiness in the journey. I find much comfort in the agency that absurdism provides, in being able to set meaning subjectively rather than searching for it in the objective realm.
Thereโs an issue with embracing absurdism โ the world is in search of cohesion and meaning while you embrace the objective lack of both. This search for cohesion and meaning percolates in product design. Social networks cannot embrace the multi-faceted nature of their users. This further fractures identity across variously optimized social networks.
Navigating each social network is like performing an opera in a language invented by a society of particularly cultured dolphins โ beautiful to those who understand it, utterly bewildering to everyone else. Just as this opera would challenge the audience's perceptions and expectations, so too does the experience of managing our identities across platforms challenge our sense of self and communication.
Iโm supposed to be a professional on LinkedIn, fun on Instagram, and an iNteLleCtUaL on formerly-known-as-Twittery. Yet, none comes close to my full experience.
Farcasterโs design embraces the multiplicity of human experience via Channels. Users create Channels around a certain community, or a topic. But what really drives the channel is the vibe.
The โvibeโ isnโt the new age, Buddha-Bar, Tuluminess of your spirituality. The vibe is the feel of the current Monty Python sketch that youโre in. Channels are numerous yet each is confined and unique in its vibe. The collective of channels on Farcaster mirror the range of subjective experiences in plurality of social settings far closer than any other social network.
Farcasterโs embrace of our disjointedness unintuitively allows for a totality of self-expression. Perhaps we can call it gesamtausdruck โ after all, some feelings can only be expressed via German compound words.
Todayโs Monty Python sketch is the meta: The Temperament of the Vibes.
P.s.: if you vibed, consider collecting the post or one of the images.
The Temperament of the Vibes
I agree with this sentiment
the downstream of it is that you only get to express one side of your personality on each network. maybe farcaster will be different. https://paragraph.xyz/@kia/monty-python
idk I do what I want
Ok calling for some research help! I'm looking for everything good that's been written about @farcaster Please share any essays, blog posts & threads below (podcasts are cool too) Could be about how Farcaster works, why it matters, related projects/businesses, personal anecdote, all of it Compiling something ๐
https://thegeneralist.substack.com/p/dan-romero?utm_source=substack&publication_id=15764&post_id=142617096&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=181ek&triedRedirect=true
Clutch, ty for sharing each of these!
https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xa7360925
I mean all of @yb content about farcaster is top tier, here's a fun one on channels I particularly enjoyed reading https://onchainletters.xyz/channels
Appreciate the shoutout Ben! @benroy also wrote this piece from 2 months ago: https://onchainletters.xyz/farcaster
Amazing, thank you for sharing this!
https://zeneca33.substack.com/p/letter-50-farcaster-warpcast-whatcast
https://tally.mirror.xyz/AxBX7LhF3kQME9lk7J8M7l4_LM0ZDP8_2jw3mHA0Gd4 from me this week
Thank you Riley!
This is fire
๐ซก ๐ tyty!!
Got this 101 on Farcaster Frames ๐ค https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/farcaster-frames
Dopeee, ty sir
Actually just pub'd this one a few minutes ago too, talks about how to drop a free NFT mint frame via Zora + Warpcast https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/free-nfts-farcaster-frames
https://zeropod.xyz/#kind-strangers-on-the-internet-zeropod-ep-16-with-dan-romero-aka-dwr-founder-of-farcaster
I put together a few blog posts to help people understand the bigger picture here ๐ https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth/worldbuilding?referrer=wanderloots.eth And the longer form version here: https://open.substack.com/pub/wanderloots/p/36-building-the-social-fabric-of
What about stuff like this? https://warpcast.com/eclecticmethod/0x2964a6bc
@esdotge has a pretty rad, ecosystem infographic NFT and /fartone collection - @mcbain would also be all over this
Thanks!!! 3333 $DEGEN
Toto Tranquilo hermano queso
I have written so many casts but not enough long form
I am hoping that the members of this channel, at least, will understand my current PFP and handle. ๐
we might win Wimbledon if we do
1000 $degen
I've decided that this might be a generational issue. I have tried explaining this at a few FC meetups now, and all I get are blank looks. It is good to know that there are at least a few folks out there who still appreciate Python humor.
I think life is a series of absurdist comedy sketches. https://paragraph.xyz/@kia/monty-python
Interesting analysis!
Ask not what the vibes can do for you. Ask what you can do for the vibes. https://paragraph.xyz/@kia/monty-python
Farcaster: The Monty Python Social Network some musings on why Farcaster feels different from other social media. https://paragraph.xyz/@kia/monty-python