I've mentioned before the vision for what Farcaster can be: a weird hybrid of tiktok, discord, myspace, and reddit. But how does that play out? Here are some early musings of that vision (disclosure: AI generated, wanting to work through feedback before committing to truly usable mockups)
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following up from the earlier quote cast – we're going to cap this call to an hour so folks can attend the call with @geoffgolberg and @suji – appreciate those flagging it to my attention. we'll likely re-resume the space after that.
Join us Tuesday at 8:00 PM Eastern to chat through @cassie ‘s proposal and the future of Farcaster. Bring your friends and your questions.
Bonus points if you read the proposal before the call (in the quoted cast!) and linked below.
https://farcaster.xyz/~/spaces/01a03619-318e-0a20-f489-ffd45af17eac
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For those who want the technical nuance rather than simply dismissing it by saying "it doesn't work", I've gone ahead and elaborated the reason why the "social blobs on ethereum" approach is unsustainable/impractical for Farcaster:
didn't miss it, doesn't work.
Economics: at a _max_ of 21 blobs per block (every 12s), you'd need an intermediary to compact posts from users to even attain the claimed 498 million messages a day max. Assuming somehow the fee market _didn't_ fluctuate and all 21 blobs could be happily filled by social blobs, we're tal
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Some folks already knew about the impending end of IPFS corporate dev teams – Protocol Labs somewhat secretly a few years ago, and more loudly in the past year no longer investing in infrastructure teams was a strong signal for this, but also the handoff of libp2p was yet another.
This now leaves the three main backer...
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Join us Tuesday at 8:00 PM Eastern to chat through @cassie ‘s proposal and the future of Farcaster. Bring your friends and your questions.
Bonus points if you read the proposal before the call (in the quoted cast!) and linked below.
https://farcaster.xyz/~/spaces/01a03619-318e-0a20-f489-ffd45af17eac
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Snap Compute FIP – PR updated with emulator support for the new compute features
With this, snaps can have a canvas, sprites, on screen inputs, joystick controls. all on chain, in hypersnap.
github.com/farcasterorg...
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