Is there anything you can’t do in the Base App social feed that you can in the native Farcaster app?

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Good feedback.

Here's a quick summary:

Part of the protocol

All accounts (FIDs), usernames, profiles, follows, casts, reactions and external address verifications are part of the protocol.

This allows for everything to be independently verified via cryptographic signatures.

This means that all distribution is shared.

Additionally, mini apps are a standard / spec that Farcaster clients implement the same way and use Farcaster accounts (FIDs) to cryptographically sign when doing auth.

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What's not currently part of the protocol:

1. Direct messages — different approaches

2. Channel metadata — all the content is on protocol, but the settings for channels are not

3. Collectibles vs. coins — those are client experiments specific for now

here is a good summary on main differences on whats on the protocol level and whats on the client level

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here is a good summary on main differences on whats on the protocol level and whats on the client level

https://farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0x7c4e0612