Does Soul Even Exist on Social Media?

This Farcaster writing-contest essay argues that social platforms lose their "soul" as growth-at-all-costs mindsets take over, and that Farcaster can scale to a million users without repeating that pattern by focusing on channels, in-person events and unusual user-created experiences. The author says Discord preserved user agency and reached user numbers comparable to Twitter, and cites Bluesky's reported 7.6 million users by September after roughly 10 million users migrated in a month. The essay puts Lens and Farcaster together at barely a hundred thousand daily active users, and suggests Farcaster channels could serve as decentralised equivalents of Discord channels.