Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
A few thoughts on Base app launching on Farcaster 1. This a big milestone for the Farcaster protocol! The Base app has millions of existing users that will be onboarded to Farcaster over the coming months. 2. It’s a big win for users — another well-funded client. Different features. Different algo. Different opportunities to earn (opt in!). Farcaster account and your social graph seamlessly work across both (simultaneously!). 3. It’s a big win for developers. Mini apps work with Base out-the-box. It was awesome to see Farcaster mini app developers on stage at the main event today! 4. Expect a few growing pains. We’re learning and working to make the experience as smooth as possible. 5. Expect both apps to try different experiments. A powerful part of Farcaster is permissionless innovation. The Degen and Clanker teams didn’t have to ask anyone for permission to build new experiences on Farcaster. Feature, not a bug.
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Serpin Taxt
@serpinxbt
I'm guessing base app won't be contributing to the farcaster protocol itself though, right? It will leverage the protocol, but likely won't try to create new primitives that all of farcaster can benefit (example, their own version of miniapps)
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
They are using Farcaster mini apps and all of their users are creating Farcaster accounts (FIDs). All the casts, reactions and follows go back into the protocol.
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Serpin Taxt
@serpinxbt
I meant like what if Base builds their own, better version of mini apps? They wouldn’t be contributing back to the protocol- or would you enable them to? So that you could get that benefit back in farcaster too. Maybe it’s not even on the table just thinking out loud
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What's a better version of mini apps? Why didn't they just do that to begin with? Assumes we're also static / not innovating?
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