Highlighting Farcaster community conversations on gift economics and the structural issues involved in funding creative work sustainably.

An introduction to a new Farcaster channel hosting a small-scale gift economics lab and roundtable.

The Studio Slowcore team is reviving the /slowcore-hq channel after a long hibernation, with the intent to build a hybrid gift economy + business.

Introducing Studio Slowcore: a new Farcaster-native creative production studio focused on wordsmith arts and slow culture. We're building toward a hybrid gift economy + business, starting with stewardship of two Farcaster channels.

If quality writing is more a result of systemic factors than individual performance, how should we think about Farcaster CLPs (conversational liquidity providers)?

The story of @edit's onboarding to Farcaster via gift culture, permissionless writer-artist collaborations, and the workings of the Farcaster scenius.

A personal reckoning with the hidden opportunity costs of "free" labor done while trying to build a sustainable creative livelihood in the "Farconomy."

Clanker is an AI agent (bot) launched on Farcaster with a "personality" that lends itself to rich bot-lore. A goth elder explains why clanker is “one of us.”

What if the Farcaster ecosystem holds the keys to de-enshittification? Has the time finally come for the real creative renaissance crypto has long promised?

Outline: What's important for long-term sustenance of writing as an art form? What's not so important?

What might it mean to design a Farcaster channel as a "slowcore room," noting that attention is both given and paid?

The /slowcore-hq channel now focuses entirely on the emerging slow-culture movement on Farcaster. Black Stone Sanctuary will continue its work on a separate channel.