Farcaster

The value of an FID is in the social graph—both stated (following) and revealed (activity). Profile is secondary.

There is minimal (no?) value in the onchain primitive absent the above.

This is why digital identity is always emergent from apps with utility.

If you spend a lot of time using an app / platform / OS, it starts to become your identity.

Building an identity layer is the wrong order of operations. You earn the right to be an identity layer by time spent, usage, people building on it, etc.

Join the movement, create a better everything, all we need to do is keep building. /justbuild /talkstory $units $justbuild $moxie

True, but by your reasoning the value of it is retained in the Warpcast application via time spent, usage, people building on it, etc.

The Farcaster identity lives outside of Warpcast.

Seems like a strong case for why no other client could ever hope to compete with Warpcast in the long run.

The primitive of digital identity is the attestation. Who we are is made up of what we do and the connections we make.

Github is an example.

Until public repos became prominent, no one cared about the GitHub username.

So true, if I see someone using Warpcast and want to introduce myself I will not tell him I own this wallet or this ENS, I will tell him am this user on the platform as my identity.