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@farcaster network architecture, correct me if I am wrong please. Hubs use gossipsub, which means one cannot run a hub on a mobile phone without burning their data plan. There is a gRPC interface defined on hubs, so one could run a client using said API...
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... yet no peer discovery is available so developers need to hardcode the URL of the endpoint (hub) to use. FC is "sufficiently" decentralized so a number of drawbacks are expected and accepted. With such a centralised model for mobile clients, it enable app devs to:...
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a) gather metadata beyond what is available on the fc network: what channels the user spend most time on, what casts the user pay more attention too etc....
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b) manipule the user's timeline: shadow ban, push sponsored content, etc
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c) Simply ban a user from using the app..
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I wonder among these drawbacks, which ones are accepted and which ones are to be resolved?
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Good read to help answer my questions: https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks
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I am not really fan of "We can do Indira model" because this is a current problem in the ecosystem that we slowly fixing up. I'd prefer to aim higher than that. We need a "can't do evil" model, not a "if you don't want evil, you can deploy your own node". This doesn't work.
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I think we should aim to remove "backends" in favour of "nodes". Terms are interchangeable so let me try to define what I mean.
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A backend is any software running *somewhere* somehow *reachable* and it may do some *heavy* operations. Heavy in terms of computing, or bandwidth usage or storage or all the above.
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