You really like a cast. Send a DC to the person who made it. They don't get the DC (cos they are on TBA)

You get a really good airdrop, open TBA just to find out it was dropped into your farplet

👆Having multiple clients with incomplete overlap is going to make UX much worse around here

yeah it’s a big issue 

hopeful that it will get sorted out eventually or at least made more clear in both clients

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I would like to think so but I doubt there'll be an easy way for it.

If I understood correctly, TBA will be using XMTP for chat. Which is an open standard, so probably a much better choice long term (although I can imagine a dozen good reasons why they wouldn't want to use them)

For wallets, I assume Farcaster went with Privy for speed and for cross-chain compatibility, while OTOH, Base doesn't want cross chain AND are heavily invested in their own wallet infra. Magic spend being the big feature here (we all hope!) 

The chat part seems much more solvable and I hope the MM team take this seriously

yeah true

very good point 

XMTP has gotten a lot better especially from client experience so i’m excited for TBA and the upcoming Convos app (formerly Converse) that the XMTP has built to compete with Signal

I think the reply would be simply around not wanting to introduce any external dependencies and/or limits to the chat functionality too early

Using XMTP would mean farcaster itself can't easily innovate anymore on that front

yeah i’d like to see MM adopt XMTP too but i’m curious to hear why they might not want to shift messaging to XMTP

The wallets will be different but my hope is that it’ll eventually be easier to see all the wallets connected to a FID across clients in a simple dashboard by MM