@itsbasil: Farcaster is least toxic public forum, but future is closed networks

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sometimes i get restless about farcaster’s pace, then i open x, bluesky, or reddit & remember: fc is still the least toxic room on the public forum everything we grumble about here—hyper-financialization, ai sludge, echo-chamber groupthink—exists everywhere else at 10× scale that’s not a farcaster flaw; it’s the web in 2025… open forums can’t sustain real signal bots, yield-seekers, and low-effort content overwhelm niche expertise… as the dead-internet materializes, real conversation will retreat behind walls the winning pattern is small, curated networks: 15-person group chats, 150-member private servers—numbers that track with dunbar’s limits on trust—these groups have almost exclusively pushed the world forward these last 20 years… nations, firms & creators that control their own walled gardens capture both mind-share & margin… geopolitically, socially, philosophically… the future is not “open” despite what the technocrats tell you it’s closed

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@itsbasil: Farcaster is least toxic public forum, but future is closed networks

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Basil argues that Farcaster is the least toxic public forum, but that open forums as a whole cannot sustain real signal and the future belongs to closed networks. He says hyper-financialization, AI-generated content and echo-chamber groupthink exist on X, Bluesky and Reddit at 10 times the scale, and that bots, yield-seekers and low-effort content overwhelm niche expertise. He points to small curated groups, such as 15-person group chats and 150-member private servers, which he links to Dunbar's limits on trust and says have pushed the world forward over the last 20 years.

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@timdaub.ethSubmitter· 1 year ago
I‘m getting more and more irritated by the whole „group chats rule the world“ thing after reading Anti-memetics. OK, I build a default-public protocol and I just shut down a group chat. I‘m the definition of being biased.

But there‘s something about that statement that makes it inflammatory to me now. I think it feels self congratulatory when someone says it. It‘s like „we did it, we created a group chat and now we rule the world.“
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