The best thing about Farcaster is that it’s an open backend that can be used to create many different kinds of frontends.

The initial Twitter clone flagship app shows how to use accounts, posts, likes, a feed, and other tools. And it also packages a wallet, embedded apps, and soon DMs.

But it’s only partially an app. It’s really a dev kit. Showing the sophistication of what can be built.

overlaps with the Herd thesis a lot, which I like

tl;dr
- everything moves through protocol hyperstructures
- price of creating front-ends is approaching zero
- next-gen internet = just in time, personalized, usecase-specific applications for everything

(announcement blog: https://www.herd.eco/blog/announcing-herd)