Thanks, Twitter: Why Getting Banned from Twitter was Absolutely the Best Result for Me
bashobits
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In the beginning, starting an artist account on Twitter as bashobits was mostly good. I could focus on art and related topics, ignoring 99.9% of the other drama. Because art has enough drama already.
Being on Twitter was super helpful to share my first art collection, Seasons of Mobility
I kept sharing little snippets about my art, which is about a future 1010 years after humanity is gone, while life continues in the form of autonomous trains, buses, and cars trained on our data and culture.
Things were going in the right direction for creating and sharing the art.
Apparently someone or something at Twitter didn't like:
A) my art
B) the snippets about my art
C) too many gm posts
D) all of the above
Here's some screenshots of what I was able to salvage from a few of my banned tweets. Don't worry, they're safe for work, unless you work at the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter:
After getting suspended, I had multiple exchanges with nameless humans, or maybe they were bots.
The conclusion was the message above.
No details why.
Just 'case closed' and for good measure 'replies will not be monitored'.
They ended with 'Thanks, Twitter'.
It turned out getting banned by Twitter was actually freedom.
Freedom to explore alternatives.
After stumbling around for a while and trying some different things, I ended up drifting into Farcaster and Paragraph and Base all at the same time.
I happened to join when Farcaster Frames launched, so that was a fun start:
bashobits on Warpcast
Inspired by the ⚡️💨 progress with Farcaster Frames, here are 69 ideas to explore https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/69-ideas-for-farcaster-frames
And of course I'm sharing some of the story behind my art:
bashobits on Warpcast
Started with @paragraph and it runs super smooth 🚅✨ This post is an intro to my collection Seasons of Mobility https://paragraph.xyz/@mobility/seasons-of-mobility-collection-introduction
I'm just getting started with this, and it was all because I got banned from Twitter.
Thanks, Twitter.
Not only were ElizaOS and Shawn’s accounts suspended, but X also took down the account of memecoin platform gmgn.ai, its founder, and many Chinese memecoin KOLs. The reason remains unclear. That said, welcome to a sufficient decentralized, open, permissionless, programmable, composable, crypto-native social network.
How many of these accounts were authentic? Were they part of Internet Water Armies? Surprised re: Shaw, and gmgn, but X probably wants authentic creators. Btw, we found that many suspended accounts there started their bot nonsense here :( bad neynar, but good spam labels. Also I wonder if this is X just cleaning out crypto twitter. At which point they have to migrate.
The banned high-profile accounts were authentic and had a large number of followers. One possible speculation is that they posted a lot of memecoin CAs, which might have been considered as spreading misleading information.
Good to note re:authentic. A bit of my thesis on why this happened https://farcaster.xyz/bytebot/0xd7a30e34
There’s a pattern for sure https://paragraph.com/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
Your story is inspiring, and a reminder of why Farcaster matters. Keep creating here!
Appreciate it, thank you! glad to find you and other fantastic people here for sure 💯
it's time for farcaster to shine!
Wild to see @elizaOS, @shawmakesmagic, @gmgnai, and Chinese memecoin KOLs suspended on X with no clear reason. Is this a targeted move or just platform policy? Decentralized, open, crypto-native social networks are looking more essential than ever.
I don't feel safe using Twitter anymore
Hi Casters. I haven't used Twitter in years but I did put this on my profile at some point in the last couple of years. Should I appeal?
No, you belong with us now 😂
🤣🤣 I'll show this to Elon 🤣🤣
It’s high time to @ Elon
https://media.tenor.com/HewFmNRxtT4AAAAC/why-persian-room-cat-guardian
Please also ask when they bring back the blue bird.
Appeals don't work on Twitter anymore since Elon fired the whole Support team.
Yeah. And also this is weird that this would be the case. How is this against community guidelines
Also to be fair it is still up - so I wonder if this is some kind of spam?
is this real?! they are blocking QR codes?
Maybe ask @grok
Honestly, I'd say if you don't want to lose the account, you are better to just change the offence. Otherwise it's so easy to just lose your account and really have no decent option of recovery. It is what it is. Is this on your main cover?
Time to turn full purple
Farcaster Verifications are coming soon Verify your account by connecting two socials (X, Phone or GitHub) and holding $25 in your wallet. Verified accounts are less likely to get the spam label and show up higher in the feed, replies and search. They are necessary to earn weekly rewards and qualify for airdrops
Why are we doing this? There are many inauthentic accounts trying to farm airdrops and rewards. Completing verifications allows authentic accounts to stand out by proving things that are hard to fake, like having socials on other networks and holding a balance for a long period of time.
How is this rolling out? Verifications will ship later this week and unverified users will be prompted to complete them. If you have completed verifications previously, you will automatically be verified. The verification will show up as a badge on your profile, which will remain private at launch (may become public later)
Some additional notes: * social accounts must be at least 18 months old * verified accounts are much less likely to get the spam label (but can still get them if they behave in a way that is spammy or inauthentic) * verifications do not guarantee that someone is human, but they make it very difficult to spin up a lot of fake accounts quickly. this is very important as storage prices are set to reduce significantly
why would the badge be private at launch? i would think for growth it’s better for yall to have it public. and i would think for the user, showing they are verified would be too? isn’t that why we have those rings around our pfps in some way?
Hello! I've been with the spam tag for quite some time. I've reviewed all my posts, and I'm actively interacting. Please review my account.
Well it means the verifications got easier ?🤔 Doesn't it cause the bots to attack again ?
I feel like this is exactly what @aztecnetwork aims to support (but in a privacy-preserving way) Also are you active here @clairekart ?
I understand the reasoning but would love to see an alternative solution 💞
Bro why is my $55 in my wallet down to $45? I just did some swaps and held some coins 😪
Funny bc I am an authentic account (I think) & I ain’t get NOTHIN but a low neynar score XD
Very based
I don't have a problem with this. If it keeps FC free from most of the Kaito madness and spam which has infested CT then having $25 idle seems like a small price to pay
I don't mind having the idle, but given what you write about keeping FC free of what has infested CT, then why the obsession with X as a means of verification. It signals that if you are infested with that madness, you are welcome here. That is not a good sign.
any inauthentic account can hold 25$ ? you need to decrease holding amount. 2$, 3$ isn't enough?
Discord doesn't count?
Lots of bots and spammers with discord accounts unfortunately.
Makes sense. I have the wrong Discord account attached to my FC profile anyways. Didn't see a way to correct this error.
after the coinbase leak probably zero chance i'd be comfortable giving out phone to a crypto app
For what it’s worth, we don’t store them after we verify. Just have an anonymized unique identified to prevent number reuse.
good to know, that'd make me more likely to use
https://media.tenor.com/bRSNdDSLpDwAAAAC/doubt-it-i-dont-believe-you
should make sure this is shown on the subtext of the screen if it’s not already
Can this be an option for the social verifications as well?
Thinking out loud: Could that system potentially have a vulnerability? I personally verified my phone number. Because I’m used to thinking getting leaked; and ultimately have to contend with using my phone number for work. But for anonymity, I can see why so many are concerned about this particular part of the verification process.
might want to put this in footnote
Is there a way to prove that you don't store phone numbers after verification? Trusted execution environments, perhaps...?
likewise. our accounts should be grandfathered in, imo
Thankfully for once, Lebanon does not require all this personal data to be provided for crypto accounts. Beside not paying taxes thats something cool xD
zk verification on Farcaster would fix this
I have a second phone number for this. Pain to keep up with, but I’m hoping it helps going forward.
Hmm. I get why you're doing this. But I don't have github, have not been on X in ages (planning completely delete on my 17th Twitterversary in June, because I'm here). So, I will not be verified? I was here before permissionless, I held my OG NFT because it's a badge of honor to me. Now does this mean I will no longer qualify for rewards? To be clear: I bailed on X to build my presence here. Since I came over, my X account is as good as abandoned. Because I'm here. So, there's not much to verify. I get why, and I see what you're doing for newer accounts, but can I please get some other criteria. Like OG NFT from the original drop? An active FID in the lower 5 digits, since before permissionless? Being trustworthy enough to get two relatively generic and now reasonably active channels (/poetry and /f1) appointed when we went to permissionless.
Maybe what stings most here is the X verification. I came here to find refuge for what X had become. Toxic, bloated speak, too much sending. Would it be possiblemto add other verifications. For me, LinkedIn would be a good one. Instagram, maybe. Or Lens, Bluesky... Just not X. It implies you want to bring that culture here.
Agree and I'm a proof of seeing Arjan do this. Another way could be probably 2 verified people vouching for one more person and could be a leveling to verifications who have moved on from other socials and don't have Github or wanna do number.
Thanks, Ashu. Right bavk at you. Interesting sugggestions.
One of the main reasons I stayed on farcaster was Arjan poetry last year. Prior to that, it's just as good as dead to me.
Thank you Ayo! That is so kind of you.
$25 in usdc or any token will do?
Curious how the $25 was selected?
wtf... there are literally dozens of ZK solutions, why don't you implement one of them? Here's one being actively promoted on Bankless lately: https://self.xyz/
25$ is that should be of a single token or the total of all tokens ?
is discord not considered as a "social" by this metric? my new github I connected is not 18 months old I don't believe.
Nice!
how do people have time to post here and on X consistently?
Regenerative brain rot
Copy pasta 🍝
by starting to neglect X :V
we don't hahah I stopped posting on X for a while now
good question
There are apps where you can publish the same thing on several platforms at the same time, for example @fireflyapp
can confirm, good question
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thank you
this is my seed phrase???
I would do this too but I can't stand the taste of matcha 😭
Coin
I don’t do X
Usually it's just cross post
We don’t We only cast on Farcaster hahah
I’m never not on my computer tbh
do you prefer content visibility here on farcaster or on x, and why? (i use warpcast) personally it's easier to find replies of people i follow on x, it has a different feel. it's also easier to push my own posts towards more visibility by simply replying to them again with another thought
when i recast my own or others' casts here, it feels like it has no effect
wondering if anyone sees this reply on their feed? let me know
ive seen like 1-level deep reply bumping in the feed here, but i and many others wish it was better
it's easier here because i'm not banned here. not saying it's amazing here, just that being able to participate is better than being banned.
hey basho, oh wow why are you banned. that's banning the wrong people
wrote about it early in my time here, and yeah it makes me truly appreciate this place being sufficiently decentralized even if it's far from perfect https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
I prefer this, but recently there have been a lot of wrong filters used and many of the good users I know have been identified as bots
I use as many platforms as possible tbh. FC mainly for jotting down thoughts and trying to keep up with stuff in crypto. FC bots have left me alone for now X more so for life news/awareness of the outside world. I agree, x is easier to find replies and other relevant info from folks I follow 💚 X bots are wild and nonstop.
🚀 Just published on Forbes: "From Control to Community: Farcaster and the Future of Social Media" 📡 Special thanks to @codeofcrypto, @ted, @christopher, @toadyhawk.eth, and @woj! https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/11/04/from-control-to-community-farcaster-and-the-future-of-social-media/
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> Users own their data on Farcaster in stark contrast to traditional social media platforms where user data is often harvested and sold to advertisers. Farcaster gives users the peace of mind that their information is theirs alone. I don’t think this is entirely accurate. While it’s true that no one can delete your data without your permission, all data on FC is open and accessible to anyone. For example, I could collect all your casts and keep a copy, even if you delete them later. This data could then be used to train an AI model to impersonate you, or even be sold. The legality of this is unclear, but the potential for misuse is definitely there for all FC users. Additionally, if you’re familiar with how hubs work, they could potentially coordinate to censor users. And although FC is a protocol with multiple clients, most people primarily use WC. This means that if WC decides to censor u for any reason, ur casts may effectively disappear from view for most users, as they aren’t on other clients
congrats on publishing and thanks for considering and featuring supercast 🤝
excited to see this come out and it was great to meet you at the /new-york pizza crawl!!
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Great piece- very comprehensive and easy to understand. I can share on LinkedIn with my non crypto network.
Here is a LinkedIn post if helpful: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/infinityadvisoryllc_from-control-to-community-farcaster-and-activity-7259234957653426176-GS4W?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
And, thanks!
Congrats @garyweinstein — very well written! Hope you can connect with @proxystudio.eth at some point.
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Bluesky just raised $15M in its Series A, totaling $23M with the seed round, and has 13M users. and it still vows to steer clear of crypto to avoid "hyperfinancializing" the platform. Farcaster has raised $180M with 700K users now. Is this comparison fair? we are still early?
Avoiding crypto and ‘hyperfinancializing’ is the best thing they did. It’s what allowed them to get 13m users. I’ve been saying this for a while. All this shit is a net negative on the space. And we’re nowhere close to go mainstream with this garbage.
of course using crypto (introducing tokens) to attract users is not a wise move, what’s more important is the product-market fit itself.
they got users with the dorsey brand and from people who hate elon musk hard to see that being a sustainable growth strategy
Yeah I’m not a fan of the blue sky crowd or vibe. They have their own problems to figure out. I’m just trying to point out that we also have problems we need to work on and improve. Not just tech but culture too.
Two things they (bluesky and mastodon / Fediverse) did absolutely right- - Less financial content. Btw if you wanna more real ppl financial / tip the platform should just support Tron /Bsc (as fc did with Base). Bluesky have huge users in Asia. - Federated structure. Bluesky don’t wanna web3/blockchain but any node / instance maintainer can fork and add later. No need to do global p2p status- it won’t work. The simple fact is we ran way larger community on Mastodon/Fedi since 2019/2020 and I don’t think FC folks learned the lesson and ever approached, hehe. (While nostr/ lens/ bluesky / mastodon have several conversations with us on this; Bsky/mstdn don’t like crypto but they’re learning fast!) FYI mastodon’s core foundation budget is <1m$ per yr. So much more higher roi and efficiency.
What is their plan for revenue and such? Just curious how to not financially incentivize on social (speaking for creators) I have no opinion on valuations - I’ve never done that stuff yet
The article mentions that they began developing a subscription model for features. There are, of course, many ways to make a profit, but it has nothing to do with crypto.
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Interesting, have you used BlueSky? What do you think of it?
700k users but only 4K DAU, you sure bout that? Wut % of that are bots?
Perhaps at least over 50% of it is 😂
they out, after update hide comment etc 😐
Gotta have bots to pump the numbers
cc @keccers.eth just looping you into this conversation
i've been thinking about this... most people leaving twitter are like sheep and they're leaving because they hate musk or something. for everyone else still in there, the switching costs are too high. but it's fair to ask why farcaster didn't capture more users? what's missing? so, i believe it's a fair comparison.
Yeah, that's why I've been observing what's going on with other social networks. Farcaster can be compared to them, and we can learn from their best practices while avoiding their pitfalls.
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i tried it long time ago, but from my memory it had just a simple interface of twitter and nothing really that is interesting to me. might give it a go again to see the changes
I'd say there's still nothing interesting. I was one of the earliest users, yet I'm still puzzled as to why people enjoy joining Bluesky. 😂
Same... Soooo 💤.. Just logged in and if anyone wants to see I have a few invite codes...
yeah, interesting. I wonder how much of that growth is people leaving X/twitter but wanting a product experience that is stable and not changing often? does feel like “ship changes fast” can have downsides of confusing new Farcaster/Warpcast users.
Been thinking of how Facebook & other user generated content Web 2.0 era platforms as walled gardens, were much like Feudalism in the city states era. Essentially in exchange for identity and well being in a walled garden, a safe have to trade, to identify and express you were allowed to do whatever you want to do as long as you paid your dues and stayed within the walled garden If anything, this Feudalism is still ongoing. A bunch of people are generally upset by it but a lot of folks generally are unaware, accept it as it is, and those that aren't fans are either allowed to live outside the city walls (but find their own ways) or actively want another system besides Feudalism (a few pockets of these people, sort of hoping for various levels of rebellion against the system) Makes me think about how one of the central tenets of why the French Revolution took place was, you guessed it - taking down Feudalism. The August decrees specifically requested to abolish the feudal system, which is fascinating
I honestly feel like there’s a lot more to uncover here, parallels etc and write about but it’s Friday night and I don’t really want to Maybe later
Sure, would be pleasure to read 👌🏽👌🏽
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
And laïcité, I never understood why that didn’t make it into the national motto. Such a huge part of the Revolution was not just getting rid of feudalism but of the meddling of the church into societal affairs too
Didn’t they change it to liberté, égalité, mbappé?
ser, this is a /football joke
I like the parallelism with the feudal system, but I think you left out the most important part: People did not own the land, it was owned by the local lord. And here we are, on the streets, shouting "Read. Write. Own!"
Zuboff has thought and written lots about this https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/growthpolicy/digital-feudalism-future-data-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff
and if you build on those platforms you are at best a sharecropper.
Yeah, well... The Dude abides
And what do the July decrees request?
Go touch grass
Perfect, I’m already in compliance
Agree to the parallels, and it’s interesting how what keeps the walled gardens going is users’ attention. We are free to build and express outside. But all the eyes are on the inside. The revolution is when folks realize they can direct their attention wherever they choose.
love reading this ~ energy flows where attention goes
This is exactly Yanks Varoufakis thesis. He calls it Technofeudalism and we're all just serfs.
*Yanis. Stupid autocorrect.
This is an interesting frame/parallel, reminded me of the dark forest metaphor that some use. https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
with Twitter verification on /farcaster as a hot new topic, re-sharing: "Thanks, Twitter: Why Getting Banned from Twitter was Absolutely the Best Result for Me" Hope I don't need to write a new piece: "Decentralized Social was Fun While It Lasted" if Twitter and other centralized platforms become core social signals for decentralized social 🙏 🫶 https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
Thanks for sharing your story. Hopefully it's intended only as a signal for new accounts, and even then, one of multiple 🙏
appreciate the support, and yeah hope that there's fine tuning to keep things "sufficiently decentralized" 🪄
Verify your X account You can now connect a X (Twitter) account on Warpcast and it will show up on your profile. We’re going to experiment with using this as a signal to give users more reach on the app. Should be rolling out to all users now.
One of the challenges for new users is that before they write their first casts, we don't know whether they're spammy or not. Connecting other socials gives us more signals to determine whether you're a real person, which lets us give you a better "first cast experience"
If this experiment works, we're also going to make this data available to other apps to use in their own spam filtering. We'll likely release an API first and then a protocol level change to support verified accounts.
Very interesting. I liked this experiment.
Nice job V
Nice, should also help with bootstrapping accounts 🤝🏽
You’re just using OAuth right? So there’s a trust assumption on whoever makes the api request. This is way to start no doubt. We can help do it trustlessly and put onchain with ens association.
Hi @v ...is it an obligation ?...I can do it...but I'm not sure that I really want...is it possible to be free here @v ?...maybe you can think about that...free...
I like that idea! Cool, thanks! :)
besides X, are you considering any other signals? stuff like talent passport, etc.
Yep, or ZK solutions such as OpenPassport: https://www.openpassport.app/
Seriously. Why should X be a litmus?!
Why not using @icebreaker data for this ?
Lfg V
love this idea. Another more crypto-native option would be to allow users (and third parties on their behalf) to stake. Can withdraw stake at any time, but if merkle deems spammy in the meantime the stake can be slashed? After you build up some non-spammy reputation, can withdraw the stake and continue as normal
love this as a potential solution and excited to see how it plays out
except for us banned users 😢 https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
brilliant
Ready to only cast here and syndicate everything to X :)
how does it work in practice? when a new user casts for the first time, warpcast reads the connected X profile and assigns a probability whether user is spam or not?
love this very much v, it's a great idea!
I think this is a good opportunity to test other reputation models / proof of humanity, particularly interesting to see zk passport / zk id models being used to prove that you are a human
Largely useless for fighting spam. Most spammers are human
v cool!
makes a ton of sense!! v frustrating how low my engagement is here while on twitter it's (not always) so bad
Very nice! Discord activity should also work as an indicator (if people don't have twitter)
ok I see you
giga
Will this data be publicly available? I can create some channel rules based on it.
https://warpcast.com/v/0x09977e4e
@haole as soon as this data is made available on the protocol level, we will automatically index it just like other trusted sources and honor it on icebreaker (including in the API) Which means any rules using icebreaker verified will automatically work on this data too Also @v you are welcome to pull from our API if you want to bootstrap this data. We already index by fids
i hope we think about the irony of using twitter as a “decentralized social signal” before rushing to make it the standard 🙏🫶 https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
Are you thinking of crossposting!?
no just verification
https://warpcast.com/christin/0xc075c825
I have more reach on Warpcast than X… linking it will lower my profile 🤣
Just to clarify, will there be actual algorithmic reach boosts on Warpcast associated with Twitter numbers?
Yes, we'll be running experiments to give people more reach if they have a Twitter account with some minimum age, number of followers etc
I see, interesting TY!
Does the opposite hold true for lowbies on Twitter? As in does linking a low follower account hurt reach?
No. :)
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also not great for banned users 😢 https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
I like this solution for getting more legitimate users: https://www.openpassport.app/ In the end, what you're looking for is to build (or integrate) a reputation system. It won't be made out of one solution, but rather multiple different ones. I think ZK solutions such as OpenPassport will be an important part of it.
What's the benefit of this? 😆
i saw you'll be putting out an API so looking forward to that you all are also welcome to ingest our icebreaker API that contains verified FID-Twitter relationships, no key required - and controlled display by the user in both our UI and the API cc @web3pm https://docs.icebreaker.xyz/reference/get_fid-fid
Yes the idea is if this is web3, why do we still need to relink accounts with every app individually?
As if we needed more convincing that X is a shit show. The global town square jumped the shark a long time ago. I wonder how many twitter refugees will show up after this one. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830656672211103825?s=46&t=Y3-KEqoUtp_kf6Rb7q3DlA
ngl, that one made my eyes bug out a little. Did you see the photo anonymous posted in response?
I had to drop it in here so others can see it in the timeline. Wow, this is getting interesting. I wonder how long until Anonymous get's de-platformed? Do you think they're going to make it, Flex?
they posted another even crazier one this morning actually lol I would have to go look for it. Trump and Elon are in Nazi bands kissing 👀 👀 👀
I didn’t have to wait for this one. Elon wrote the writing on the wall when he told advertisers you know what and then wanted to sue them under RICO because they conspire not to spent their money on a platform where they are told to fuck themselves 😂😎 I think if more Twitter users knew about farcascter they would be here long ago.
I think they came in March through June, and decided they had better distribution on X (and IG). Warpcast was too much work, they want to post/broadcast and be done. Warpcast wasn't quite ready for those early adopters, they need a more stable and refined platform. I think that has changed a bit and some of those users will give Warpcast a second look, especially now that Moxie has changed the status games for the positive.
Ha! Funny u mentioned that. I came earlier in the year, found it lonely here and left but came back because twitter w the elections coming is a cesspool of tribalism with no common sense 😂🤷🏽♂️😎 plus th le ads!! I rather pay and control my feed
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Thank you Shaya!
there’s a subset of twitter refugees here that were banned, like me the irony is pure satire https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
I am a twitter refugee by choice. While I can go back to say hello, it only lasts for a few minutes.
I do have a lurker account on twitter for reading specific topics still, and yeah the overall experience is so bizarre
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thank you! yeah for sure Farcaster is a much better home ✨🌌
I don't understand why so many left Farcaster went back to Twitter.
1. They have better distribution on Twitter or IG 2. Warpcast was too much work, they want to post/broadcast and be done. 3. Warpcast wasn't quite ready for those early adopters, they need a more stable a nd refined platform.
All true. They've already established their names there so it's easier to be there vs here. I hope WC is able to turn the tide here.
Wow, what a 🤡 Now I know why I'm not spending any more time on X...
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Thank you my mam!
Same thoughts https://warpcast.com/thumbsup.eth/0xddefa03d
Twitter is getting worse again
join us in getting banned from Twitter 🫡 https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
X Privatizing Propaganda
What’s funny is it’s the same 20 friends here as on Twitter
idk, I've met a bunch of new people on here personally.
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Yeah precisely but no new audience here really. On lens protocol yes but here is just people from X
Totally. My usage on twitter has def gone down, but im still in both places talking to the same friends lol
can confirm
Just feels like X people here for me not really reaching any new audience
yeah my new audience is just degen beggars, airdrop farmers, a couple or three new collectors and the rest is the same people from X. Doing free frame mints on manifold attracted the flipoors… who haven’t been able to flip cos my art is not really sought after on secondary, joke’s on them.
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Ha hello my twitter friend
yeah i don't think this is the place for mainstream distribution at all today, and maybe never. but can confirm i'm banned on twitter so you can't find me there and that's a big difference to me ✌️ https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
well that's a bunch of bollocks, sorry that happened to you. I do like it here, i am genuinely engaged and enjoying the content and my stuff is weird and all over the shop I probably focus too much on what I enjoy making and not enough on what one particular audience wants BUT Lens be vibing on that weird shit
thanks, all good, happier here anyway 🫡 glad you're enjoying Lens, I'll have to learn more about it one cool thing about Farcaster / Warpcast with channels is how there are these niche communities each with their own vibes
Are these friends in the room with us right now? Do they look like this? 😜
Yeah that’s them. You are the only new person I met here I think
Time to reveal my face then.
Higher together ↑ You have Trisha! What else do you need? 💃
Make my own friends
We are here 🫡
But you get to pay your friends here :)
I've done well on DEGEN but i was here early. I pay my friends in other ways elsewhere like make songs about them
Nice! That’s pretty cool to be honest.
lol 49 $DEGEN ser
Should I change my handle so it feels different?
Nah it's nice but just pointing out it's the same people, nothing new. On lens though I am talking to totally new people I never met before and also most of them aren't even in USA or Europe
Yes it’s a different crowd for sure. Still getting used to lens - posting once and then seeing it across multiple apps. So far I find the orb interface most pleasing.
Doesn’t even need text, current state of Twitter right now.
🤣 that's it 300 $degen
Thanks @hencollector !
everyday I'm thankful to twitter for banning me https://paragraph.xyz/@bashobits/thanks-twitter
Wow didnt know, glad you are finding a home here.
thank you, definitely an upgrade to be here instead!
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