regarding the new rules here - I think its an interesting experiment and worthwhile to try to increase the user experience of the feed experience.
However it also seems that a lot of slop does not break the rules, so I wonder whether the new rules will adequately improve feed quality
Using LLMs for curating content and feeds feels promising
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has someone bought farcaster yet?
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The Merkle team repeatedly showed contempt for third-party developers who believed they were building on a neutral protocol. In reality, it was the standard Silicon Valley platform playbook: call it “sufficiently decentralized,” while keeping the meaningful leverage centralized.
The pattern looked like this:
“We’ll label this a decentralized protocol, but you can’t run a node, pay a service provider instead.”
“We'll open-source the app… (a year later, no open sourcing)”
And a bunch of similar reversals and constraints that all point the same direction.
I’ve been giving the Neynar team time to enact what they want post-acquisition (they’re likely swamped with new responsibilities and infra to maintain) before deciding how I interpret their intentions toward third-party developers like myself. It mostly looks like business as usual: a shift in focus toward mini-app/agent developers, not a move toward stronger protocol guarantees or developer neutrality (though decentralizing channels is at least a step in the right direction, and so is reinstating third party dev calls). My jury is still out - I'm giving them a bit of time to find their feet.
On Cassie’s fork:
I support experimentation, and I support the right to fork; especially as a form of dissent against platforms that market themselves as protocols to win developer goodwill. I genuinely hope this fork contributes to making Farcaster a fairer place for any developer to build on, and I'll try any app that uses it.
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if only I'd worked at coinbase...
I'd have the experience of having built at scale...
I'd actually have valid ideas....
*checks notes*
like pivoting out of integrating Farcaster?
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