campfire 🫴🪵🔥

i'm starting to sketch out the rough direction for /campfire's text-only (to start) social protocol (a completely independent alternative to the Farcaster protocol, if successful).

buckle in...this is gonna be a long boiiiiiiiiiiii
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i'll start with my motivations and accompanying reasoning. 👇

soldier of Good. 🪖🥰 
producer × DJ. 🎧 🪩 
working on /campfire. 🫴🪵🔥
host of /downshift ⚙️ + /dww 🎧 +  /gtd 🛠️.
https://linktr.ee/0xdownshift

but the app, as built, is super limited (see below).

we validated the concept with a small group (~couple dozen DJs+producers+music sickos, like myself) and now need to build an alpha that can support 100s (or more) users, and we need a Real Backend™ for that..

..is this creepy ass what-are-my-friends listening to rn bullshit, and you have to turn if off every session which is stupid (and rude) af (plz let me cry to swifty alone at 3am in peace, ok?)

i built a proof of concept of the app for iOS back in 2023 (in SwiftUI...which i came to really, really love, fwiw)

Co-listening sounds awesome! Can we share our own music?

/campfire is intended to be a music-sharing app/platform, with the goal of "making music social again". you literally can't send a song to a friend on Spotify! wtf? there are no feeds, and the only social feature, besides real-time co-listening (very fkn cool, actually) and sharing playlists (also dope) (cont'd 👇)


Interesting, so not on FC protocol like tunecaster.xyz?

Musician • Songwriter • Producer | Web3's first rockstar | deshsaxena.com/release4

Interesting! By the way, dmed you about your post the other day, would love to chat more about it

that's correct. big fan of tunecaster, tho!

Base Boy 💙| Meme Caster☠️| Interest 🎩🖤|
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Daily casting from Base app 🟦

Excited to see where this goes
What inspired you to build it as an alternative instead of layering on Farcaster?