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       title: May 24th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-05-24, 07:40:38 -07:00

     

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       section: journal

     

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       link: https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/open-social-daus/

     

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       I put together a page gathering [[Open Social DAUs|info on DAUs]] for the [[Open Social Protocols]] I'm interested in.

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_notes/Dan Romero.md

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       aliases:

     

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         - dwr

     

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       link: https://danromero.org/

     

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       tags:

     

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         - person

     

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         - founder

     

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         - crypto

     

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       farcaster: https://warpcast.com/dwr

     

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       twitter: https://x.com/dwr

     

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       Founder of [[Warpcast]] and creator of the [[Farcaster]] protocol.

     

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       Has a [crypto reading list](https://danromero.org/crypto-reading/) in chronological order, from 2008 Bitcoin white paper, to 2022 topics, including his co-founder [[Varun Srinivasan]]'s post [[Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks]].

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_notes/Open Social DAUs.md

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       If we hope to see [[Open Social Protocols]] succeed -- that is, be available and widely adopted as open protocols that many people, apps, organizations, and more can use and interoperate between -- we need to track what the Daily Active Users (DAUs) look like.

     

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       Looking at some of Dan Romero's comments around Farcaster, his goal is 10M DAU as having large global impact. That translates to somewhere in the range of 100M to 500M accounts.

     

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       Looking at some of [[Dan Romero]]'s comments around Farcaster, his goal is 10M DAU as having large global impact. That translates to somewhere in the range of 100M to 500M accounts.

     

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       Likely of use will be looking at [[Social Platform DAUs]] to compare and contrast.

     

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       ## [[ActivityPub]]

     

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       [FediDB](https://fedidb.org/) is the main dashboard. It only tracks Monthly Active Users (MAU), which will be a much higher number than DAU. [Powered by a crawler](https://fedidb.org/crawler.html) that retrieves self-reported data from instance servers

     

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       * Does not currently seem to include [[Threads]], or maybe that just shows up under "Other" since it's per user opt-in

     

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       * 72% Mastodon

     

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       ## [[ATProtocol]]

     

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       A couple of independent dashboards:

     

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       * [Jazco Stats](https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats) - clear and simple, charts for daily likers / posters / followers, goes back to May 2023

     
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       * edavis shows Daily/Weekly/Monthly active across all actions, not just posting, which looks to be around ~300K

     

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       ## [[Farcaster]]

     

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       [Farcaster.network Dashboard](https://farcaster.network/)

     

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_notes/Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks.md

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       link: https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks

     

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       published: 2022-01-11

     

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       This is the high level outline of [[Farcaster]] by co-founder of [[Warpcast]] [[Varun Srinivasan]].

     

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       > Every year, centralized social networks place more restrictions on what users and developers can do. They seem to believe that limiting choices is the path to a healthy network, while the opposite is probably true. A decentralized social network can challenge this hypothesis by making two powerful promises that centralized networks cannot. They can guarantee that users own a direct relationship with their audience and that developers can always build apps on the network.

     

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       > Centralized social networks influence every aspect of our lives, and their shortcomings are painfully clear. Improvements in cryptography and blockchains have provided workable solutions to achieve sufficient decentralization. We have a reasonable way to build a decentralized name registry, a hybrid off-chain/on-chain architecture to scale the network, and interesting new social primitives to build on.