Farcaster

What is the valuable asset that a decentralized social network is securing?

In Ethereum, it's primarily ether. What's the ether of social networks?

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

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Ethereum

Provenance of ideas. In the emerging idea economy, having cryptographic lineage to where those ideas came from is going to be increasingly relevant and valuable.

I get what you're getting at, but is that actually what we're securing here?

How do I store my friend's data? Do I need to run a hub, is there a mode for this? How do we unexpire my data after it has been expired? Like, if someone wants to load an old link to a cast that is broken on warpcast because it was expired in the future, what's the flow?

Yeah, I think we're going to end up in a world where people store their own data, and data of their friends forever, and the whole "expiry" thing is only going to apply for subsidized or paid storage from storage providers.

I'm pretty sure the way the casts are stored currently is in a merkle tree that you can always run proofs against even if not everyone has all the data.

Does this apply here if casts are ephemeral/get expired?