the 2 year anniversary of warpcast channels just passed

and they're still not in the farcaster protocol
and third party clients still can't fully build on them

makes me sad

insufficiently decentralized

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/92

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You can use FIP-2 with NFTs today. The first channels were NFTs. 

What people want with “channels” is the distribution and UX in the Farcaster app. Every iteration of the UX has failed along a major dimension in that regard.

@sahil and a few others are working on a proposal to simplify and migrate existing channels into a better format.

you can have permissionless channels without enshrining something that isn't working - for example make them NFTs that are used as FIP-2 targets; can always migrate to a more farcaster-opinionated approach later

FIP-2 has been in the protocol day 1. 

Our version of channel metadata has not worked. No point in enshrining something that’s not working.

ᴡɪʀᴇᴅ ꜰᴏʀ ᴡᴏɴᴅᴇʀ, ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ꜱᴇɴꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ . ɪ ᴀꜱᴋ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ɪ ᴄᴀʀᴇ. ɪ ᴄᴀꜱᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ.

I didn’t even know this existed! This is super cool!

If you could fully build on them what would you do?

do channels created with non warpcast/farcaster parentUrls still not show up inside this app?

that seems so obvious. not sure what i’m missing there.

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