The best thing about Farcaster is that it’s an open backend that can be used to create many different kinds of frontends.

The initial Twitter clone flagship app shows how to use accounts, posts, likes, a feed, and other tools. And it also packages a wallet, embedded apps, and soon DMs.

But it’s only partially an app. It’s really a dev kit. Showing the sophistication of what can be built.

> and soon DMs

DMs have never been part of the open backend. Every attempt from the community to fill this gap has been met with Web2-style "not in my backyard"

I got fed up and turned my attention to AT Protocol

Any progress getting the ATProto ecosystem to embrace something like XMTP?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

Unfortunately, a change is needed to the XMTP identity layer to support AT Protocol identities. Until that change is made, ATProto devs can’t use it, so not much progress there.

But, there is some community  momentum building to use a non-MLS based encryption layer due to the centralizing nature of TreeKEM in MLS.