Linda Xie on How Mini-Apps Are Helping Farcaster Take on Web2 Social Media - Ep. 838

Legacy social media platforms lock you in, control your audience, and exploit your data.

Farcaster aims to fix those problems. But how can it attract developers and users in an already saturated media environment?

Developer Ecosystem Lead Linda Xie joined the show to explain:

How Farcaster addresses social media’s structural flaws

How Farcaster’s mini-app ecosystem is helping to grow the user base

The most popular apps taking off on the platform

How the whole crypto community could benefit from gathering on Farcaster

Why she believes crypto communities belong on open, portable networks

And why her family’s history helped her grasp the significance of Bitcoin in 2011

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Linda Xie, Developer Ecosystem Lead at Farcaster

Previous coverage of Unchained on Farcaster and social media:

Farcaster Wants to Win Over Crypto. Here’s How It’s Different From ‘Crypto Twitter’

Ethereum Accounts to Post on Social Media More After Criticism

How Decentralized Social Network Farcaster Hopes to Eventually Get to One Billion Users

What is Warpcast Wallet?

Farcaster’s Snapchain

Farcaster’s mini-apps

Understanding Farcaster: A Sufficiently Decentralized Social Graph Protocol

Timestamps:

🤝 0:00 Introduction

🤯 3:55 How an unusual situation in her family got Linda crypto-pilled

⚖️ 7:57 How building legitimacy at Coinbase was crucial for the industry

🪜 10:20 Xie’s journey from VC to founder

🌐 13:04 How crypto’s adoption has evolved around the world

🔍 16:44 Why Linda decided to build and focus on Farcaster

🔧 23:31 How Farcaster addresses social media’s structural flaws

👀 31:14 How mini-apps build Farcaster’s user base

💲 37:32 Why Warpcast Wallet is a “game changer,” according to Linda

❓ 40:19 How Snapchain is used for storing data

👷 44:29 What types of developers the Farcaster ecosystem attracts

💡 45:20 How Linda aims to make Farcaster easy to understand

✨ 49:50 Linda’s favorite Farcaster mini-apps

😀 55:10 Attracting the whole crypto community to Farcaster

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