[Vitalik: Firefly Can Optimize Social and Chat Experiences While Solving the 'Network Effect' Problem] BlockBeats News, January 23, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated during a Space session: 'Personally, I used Farcaster more in 2023 and 2024. Recently, I started paying attention to decentralized social media for two reasons. One is that I think the chat quality on Twitter is particularly poor, and it is not suitable as the world's chat hub, so we need more options. The other is the "network effect." Maybe your new product has a better algorithm and better privacy protection, but if you don't have users, none of it matters. Firefly has two features that can break through this dilemma. It is decentralized social media, but at the same time, it is also a multi-platform gateway. It can be a Twitter client or a Farcaster client. Users can use Firefly without leaving Twitter, which solves the "network effect" problem.'