I gave feedback in the farcaster channel about my onboarding experience and nobody replied to it. Idk if anyone even saw it.
Maybe it got buried among all the crypto spam. But either way it is very telling.
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Frames are a really profoundly bad user experience for someone new to farcaster.
At least in @warpcast , you are given no context as to what they are and what they do.
They look like scam links in the UI (strong calls to action with crappy graphics).
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Forcing users to come up with a permanent, unchangeable username upon sign up is a terrible onboarding flow in @warpcast
It’s not even necessary because the underlying identity is just a keypair. So at the very least you could allow me to make a permanent username later when I’ve had time to think about it
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Keywords I would suggest muting to make farcaster even minimally usable
“$”
“Degen”
“NFT”
“Mint”
This place is overrun with spam holy crap.
Btw Rabble, I think the Nostr equivalent of farcaster “frames” should be WebXDC
You can change your name at any time, you just have to buy another fname to reserve it or you can use an ENS name.
Also it's a bit rich for Nostr users to be complaining about spam on other protocols.
I genuinely don’t see spam on Nostr. I’m not sure why that is, but I don’t. I think I muted a couple spam accounts in the past.
But the point is that the spam is specifically endorsed on farcaster because it’s part of the ethereum ethos. They support and enable get rich quick schemes.
Also I’m just going off of what Warpcast told me. They said during onboarding that I couldn’t change it and it didn’t let me advance without choosing a name
Nostr has lots of spam on public relays and once you get hooked up with people you basically don’t see it, but it’s bad for new users who both have a hard time finding and getting connected to new users and become vulnerable to spam targetting.