Farcaster will never scale

I posted this to Farcaster yesterday1:

I've unfollowed a handful of people, muted a few, and left a bunch of channels (I should've did the channel thing a while ago).

The great thing about crypto is that you're surrounded by a community of dreamers, builders, and creators building a brighter future because we've all identified what's not working in society.

So, to suddenly understand that a large swath of your peers gleefully celebrate an inept moron because he'll make the crypto casinos print money to the moon at the expense of us all is…baffling.

Like…the same people who understand how to write smart contracts and use custodial wallets are the same ones who accept that the same people they mint from, laugh with, and build with will literally lose their rights, lives, and/or families due to the incoming administration…and they're fine with that.

Where's the humanity?

"Hahaha, money go brrr" over everything? Seriously? SERIOUSLY.

I've been black my whole life so I'm used to people smiling in my face and cursing my existence in the same breath. yawn

I let my guard down and assumed because I was in a smart space with bright people working towards a brighter future for us all that we'd ALL be on the same page. Idk wtf y'all think anymore and nor do I care at this point.

Farcaster is a neat experiment that had potential to work. Now I see it will never work. You cannot be a network for everybody when you don't give a shit about every body. Glazing and posturing for Daddy Elon when he don't even respect his own kids is sick work.

My good friend Brad Barrish shared an excellent blog post from Ken White2 in response. As one commenter put it, it's the best post‑mortem of the election that I've seen yet. Honestly, it's a must‑read. Check it out, you'll thank me later.

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