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Dev ecosystem @farcaster, cofounder @bountycaster. Prev: cofounder of Scalar Capital, product at Coinbase, coproducer @ethereumfilm

That was my top feature used for super so putting in a request for Bountycaster 🙏

Will Warpcast make it easier to switch between accounts on both web and mobile now that super isn't available for that? :)

Building /fc-africa. I am the EggFather. Gym addict. /muscle /ftc

Since super is joining with warpcast
Can we get some nice upgrades from super like scheduled casts?

I had to give a shot XD

https://warpcast.com/woj.eth/0xb5d9f5dc

will joining warpcast increase our chances of making farcaster relevant vs building interface on our own?

Farcaster clients worth checking out

@recaster-fc 

@herocast

@farquest 

@fireflyapp

Whatever your decentralized, borderless, neutral, censorship-resistant open blockchain question is, the answer is YES… to Crypto!

Honestly have not see Warpcast go down for more that a few moments in the last 6 months.

Just a dude who loves birds | chief bird officer at /songbirdz

cast it
share with others and get them to cast it
link it here so I can boost it

After publishing a new mini-app, what's the best way to help push it out on Coinbase Wallet and on here?

Other than just obviously making the mini-app fun, easy, and worthwhile to use.

Does follower count matter in terms of how it gets distributed?

Building Programmable Organizations at hatsprotocol.xyz and @curie

not critiquing just asking.

my most common breakdowns 1) using frames on desktop (90% of my farcaster usage is on desktop), 2) frames auto-selecting coinbase wallet login on mobile then CBW not authing correctly

I'd say I've churned from trying ~70% of new frames because of one of these two issues. maybe pebkac

Should work fine? Is there something about frame UX today on Warpcast that's not working for you?

How well do you think frames UX scales across different clients?

Degen

First and foremost, congratulations to the Super and Warpcast teams! I’ve heard great things about Supercast and hope that those unique advantages can be seamlessly added to Warpcast

Now for business, why is @superanon a part of the Warpcast rewards program? It was already a fringe case prior to an acquisition, seems obvious it should not be a part of rewards any longer.

Further, business accounts like @coinbasewallet sitting in the top 10-25 ranks makes no sense. Why would CB wallet get a $100 or $300 reward, what good does that do?

These should be rewards for actual users imo, easy changes to make 

https://warpcast.com/woj.eth/0xf0c8895c

How quickly can @superanon, @coinbasewallet and other businesses be removed from warpcast rewards?

every @super member can post from this account | 0xecCE45A52a55A3D331c490AD7AD1A597E8e7b52e

What good does @baseapp.base.eth getting a $100 or $300 reward do for the Warpcast ecosystem?

Why would a (de facto) subsidiary @ superanon continue to vacuum up top rewards? As I pointed out to @gt current 5 of the top 17 rewards holders are involved with Farcaster to varying degrees. Not really sure what the advantage would be to keeping the status quo

How quickly can @superanon, @baseapp.base.eth and other businesses be removed from warpcast rewards?

https://warpcast.com/amc/0xb2da8d1e

these are good analogies, better than what i've been saying. 

ive been linking it to how twitter used to work with various clients before closing the api's. ima use these

Plenty of examples where normal use protocol / client with different names:

Email / Gmail
Web / Chrome

And in crypto:

Ethereum / MetaMask 
Solana / Phantom

Does the cumbersome explanation between “Farcaster” and “Warpcast” worry you at all when onboarding new users?

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who pays to host the infinite amount of data free sign ups would create

I hope CB wallet is that!!! You do realise how swift the X app is vs WC, right?

FC is already a subscription with storage.

For WC, something we've wanted to do since the beginning. But not high priority.

FC and WC could go for subscription service?

Focus is on EVM for now. 

Better to be winning in a single front war than trying to fight a two front war.

Does FC have any (near term plans) to be more chain-agnostic and integrate Solana, Bitcoin L2s and Move-based protocols?

Co founder BantR- on chain attention economy powered by infofi. Documenting my journey to become 100x AI first founder. Growth nerd, part time guitar player

Working on a few initiatives. Would expect medium following from other networks to be more likely.

any dedicated plan to get high following accounts from other networks here?

Warps are a way to do a limited set of onchain actions in an App Store compliant manner.

We're planning on reducing the storage fee by 90%

What you think about warps ? Is it possible to run warpcast without storage fee?

Existing user bases are pretty different. As CBW Farcaster integration matures, would expect more "competition", but that's an overall win for the protocol.

Merkle is optimizing for what's best for the protocol long term.

how do you think CBW and Warpcast will differentiate 

seems like both are wallets+farcaster feeds and would compete for the same part of the user attention pie

All makes sense - I'll keep an eye on Jesse's socials

I think the key point of tension will be the perception of CBW as "a wallet" vs Warpcast as a "Twitter clone"

One question on my mind: "What Frames would perform best in a broadcast feed-style UI (something to spread a message) vs a wallet-style UI (something to view my assets)?"

Since I don't have clarity on what the updated CBW will look like, it's harder to think about what might be worth building for that future.

A lot of that is work-in-progress / their story to tell.

My understanding is frames will work on CBW the same way they work on Warpcast today.

"Ship a frame, have it run in any Farcaster client"

What further details can you share about the Coinbase Wallet Partnership? 

What is their feed going to look like? 
Are they running their own algorithm? 
Are they prioritizing casts with frames?

What question should I be asking that I might not be thinking about?

Ethereum builder & people connector. Juicebox, Revnet, Defifa & Footy App. My innie posts stuff on kmacb.eth.sucks

No plans right. 

Feels like a lot of overhead for not a lot of gain—right now.

Long term, would love to see a credibly neutral way to govern the protocol. 

But sequencing is important.

Any changes at the foundation or in protocol governance on the way?

Congrats. Big big big. 💜

Hahaha, I’m going to miss Superanon, I was the one who asked the question 😅. This would be a huge evolution Dan. I’ve believed in Farcaster since the beginning, and now that you’re joining forces with Woj, you’re unstoppable!

I'd like to have that at some point this year!

when ama live on farcaster, maybe with a frame ? 