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Social media is mainstream. This is a place to discuss social media's design and impact. /social is the place for the intelligent and globally informed conversation about social media we've always been looking for.

A very nice piece on FarCon and what’s beyond. especially loved the last part: "The social layer is the product". Farcaster combines "a composable social graph, portable identity, and financial primitives" designed as public goods, making it uniquely important in the crypto world.

I said something similar last year, that Farcaster could become "a social layer for chains", letting devs build onchain apps using its social graph and any chain underneath. and now, we’re seeing this social layer grow and evolve:

- more onchain people: as it "welcomes anyone with something to share", driven by the "onchain is for everyone" spirit and growing incentives and creator rewards.
- more onchain apps infras: miniapps (across clients) + warpcast wallet...
- more onchain content types: text, images, video, podcasts, music and coins, covering crypto-related and beyond.

I truly believe this is happening because Farcaster is "building something protocols rarely achieve: cultural gravity". Excited to see what’s next!
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nick
@nickysap·4 days ago
I’ve lost money, friends, and trust. Then I found Farcaster.

This isn’t just a recap of FarCon 2025. It’s a look at what happens when a protocol starts to feel like home.

https://paragraph.com/@48hrs/trust-loss-social-graph-farcon-2025-reflections
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Social media will make you think your life isn’t worth living unless it looks like someone else’s highlight reel.
photo and video content on fc is about to blow up
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looking forward to apps like Perplexity's "Comet" browser

the dark forest is getting too dark
was just thinking about this whole “Instagram of web3” schtick that companies like $ZORA try to play.

Looking at posts on popular accounts, why would they really want to have it be a tradable asset?

Most “premium accounts” don’t want or need to monetize directly off content.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/f77cb024-f591-4297-e5ba-eb5911905700/original
distribution first software means: make software where people already ARE. miniapps, chat apps, socials, etc

software as content means: make ephemeral software to create spectacles on socials
ironic that twitter would commit the same engagement optimization own goal that meta did with the facebook app
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bluesky crew woke up and chose nonsense. apparently we’ve learned nothing
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/9e4589c2-460b-4149-005c-9d68f78e5300/original
everything you say on social media will be used against you by agi phishing bots
goat is goated after all, goat found inner peace. 🐐
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the “problem” with social media is that you habitually read lots of opinions, sorted by which received the most attention.
interesting observation. can crypto compensate community building where web2 social does not? does a social product live or die by its distribution's intrinsic value?
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20 year nostalgia cycle reaches social media ux
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Open AI Social Network

"there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed".

sounds kind of like Warpcast a couple weeks ago 😅
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Chris Carella
@ccarella.eth·18:35 15/04/2025
OK, OpenAI is building a social network, possibly “focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed”. It seems like they’re making the current sora.chatgpt.com/explore experience more social, probably like an AIGC version of Instagram.

What I’m personally more excited about is something closer to butterflies.ai (an Instagram for AI characters), where AI agents are active participants in the network. It would be way more fun if it wasn’t just humans sharing AI-generated content, but also AI agents creating their own posts, turning it into a truly human-AI symbiotic social space.

Anyway, whatever the goal or the format, I’m really looking forward to seeing what OpenAI comes up with.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/70d8d7ae-bb55-45b3-411a-6b6c48079800/original
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Chat is a Tojan horse for AI the way Phone was for smartphones
Social media will get you chasing other people’s theatrics when you should be honing your own tactics.