“Conflating Farcaster 'the protocol' with Farcaster 'the social media platform built on top of the protocol' limits people's perspective on what can be built on Farcaster.”

Maybe it’s just the case that we want farcaster to be something it’s not

Steve Ballmer quote from Acquired:

“Platforms need apps. You want to own the top first party app that runs on your platform, otherwise your platform can’t get good. 

Office was the best first party app on Windows. Outlook was the best first party app on Exchange.

You want to

Yano 🟪

Relevant
https://x.com/JasonYanowitz/status/1929566771071037504?t=gIIgPgb0zEg_K1toleyJMQ&s=19

Mini apps will eat the internet | Latest drop: /clankermon | Building : /miniapps /large /fctrivia /flappycaster /jeeves /source @degentip @playsource /jump

I subscribe to Product-led platform development. I think it’s more nuanced for protocols