just remember, it's not a "decentralized social protocol" until the smart contract fuses are burned. 🌉

one thing that take people a while to internalize is how social contracts are really the void which binds a protocol. 

standards, smart contracts, blockchains etc are all important pieces that make it harder to break these contracts casually, but do not make it impossible. 

if you have sufficient social consensus you can break all of them (see DAO fork, Bitcoin Cash fork etc)

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

💯 - But these examples are not super relevant in this thread.

The FC protocol is made up of different components. Today, 100% of the control of the identity layer is in Merkle's hands, which is essentially no different than 𝕏.

no, identity lives onchain and is not controlled by merkle.

nope. it's a smart contract that we don't control.

you can read the code here and verify it for yourself, you don't have to trust me on this : https://github.com/farcasterxyz/contracts

my identity (in the context of this thread) is my FID and my ability to update it is controlled by a smart contract that is 100% controlled by Merkle today

I keep saying it, Farcaster is not a decentralized protocol, if you speak against them they will put you in spam list the way they did to me. So no one can see my messages.