Farcaster

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Farcaster is a place for side projects right now, not serious companies. Maybe will change in a few years. But I don’t believe we will ever see another client compete with Warpcast, which makes it all the less interesting to me with the lack of client decentralization.

If @dwr.eth wants more clients, open sourcing Warpcast like how @uniswap open sources their web and mobile apps would be a great first step

Just like Android, and many others

Strong brand means majority will still use Warpcast

But getting and maintaining feature parity will be easier for would-be competitors

The largest onchain marketplace. Buy and sell crypto on Ethereum and 13+ other chains.

building world's largest jackpot @megapot • ex @uniswap • 🟪 #45, FID #1575

Feel good move with a lot of work.

To make Warpcast work you need our team. :)

Fair that it's a matter of sequencing and isn't top priority

I may have misheard that this was top of mind, and it was my initial reaction seeing a promising consumer-focused warpcast alternative shut down

The existential issue for Farcaster is growing retained daily active users. Open sourcing won’t do that. 

After users, which is by far the most important, developers want decentralized and interoperable direct casts.

It’s putting your money where your mouth is, and one of few bets you can control to push client decentralization fwd

Agree it’s a lot of work, having worked at uniswap, it would be far easier to be closed source

Yes, backend and infra isn’t included but it makes it easier to compete against a team worth $1B