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We think Farcaster should be free to join, without the excessive onboarding process that forces people to use crypto directly in order to even participate. Crypto is a technology, no different than databases, queues, caches, or logging infrastructure. Weirdly, this industry has had a strange fetish for making that technology the focus rather than an implementation detail. The detail is important, but less about the how, and more about what it enables.
we want onboarding new people to Farcaster to be better! if you've onboarded or onboarded someone else recently: what was the hardest part, what caused friction, and what would you change first? the more specific, the more useful.
I’ve tried to onboard a few non tech natives to farcaster lately and there is such a crazy amount of unnecessary friction Asks to link an x account(about 50% of people don’t have x and immediately associates Farcaster with Elon in their heads who is controversial) Asks you to pay if you don’t have an x account(absolute no for onboarding just no full stop drop it we all know this) I don’t even know the current state of referrals, what does that do? I just know it didn’t seem to help I don’t understand why these spam filters are considered necessary for farcaster and not other social apps. These are established long solved problems. Cc @farcaster @neynar
excited to be onboarding Degen as an additional validator node! https://farcaster.xyz/jacek/0x5069fadb