Farcaster

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Farcaster is a place for side projects right now, not serious companies. Maybe will change in a few years. But I don’t believe we will ever see another client compete with Warpcast, which makes it all the less interesting to me with the lack of client decentralization.

If @dwr.eth wants more clients, open sourcing Warpcast like how @uniswap open sources their web and mobile apps would be a great first step

Just like Android, and many others

Strong brand means majority will still use Warpcast

But getting and maintaining feature parity will be easier for would-be competitors

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The existential issue for Farcaster is growing retained daily active users. Open sourcing won’t do that. 

After users, which is by far the most important, developers want decentralized and interoperable direct casts.

It’s putting your money where your mouth is, and one of few bets you can control to push client decentralization fwd

Agree it’s a lot of work, having worked at uniswap, it would be far easier to be closed source

Yes, backend and infra isn’t included but it makes it easier to compete against a team worth $1B

Feel good move with a lot of work.

To make Warpcast work you need our team. :)

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experimenting != building a lasting product. getting users is to switch is hard, and it's easy for that feature to be replicated across clients (e.g. scheduled casts).

I agree with your second point tho. client diversity doesn't mean every app needs to look like wc. a few do, but most won't and that's actually good.

I partly agree.

I think having an open-source Warpcast lets someone experiment super easily. Got one feature you want to see if people find interesting? Great, you can do this in weeks not months. 

Also, more apps that don't look like WC will come up. Eg. focused on a specific medium like music or art, etc

I think (perhaps counter-intuitively), the more the stack becomes commoditized (good apis, os client starters, etc), the less likely that we'll see a true WC competitor, not more.