shazow
@shazow.eth
A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.
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Currently: WhatsABI
Genuinely would like an answer or renewed commitment to open source the apps. It has been 8 months.
@rish please?
Happy to help if I can!
We're planning to move forward with rebranding the Warpcast mobile and web app to Farcaster.
1. Nothing is changing any time soon. We will take our time with this and have plenty of communication about it across multiple channels. The earliest the change will happen is mid-May, but a decent chance it happens in June.
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are there still plans to open source the farcaster app or has that changed?
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For the Bluesky/ATProto-curious, here's a meaty thread of an actual censorship failure mode being mitigated by booting up an entire parallel appview separate from the official one by the Blacksky team.
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❌ Social Network
❌ Social Media
✔️ Social Venue
A social venue is about people. It is a place to make new friends, have abundant opportunities to deepen our friendships, and ultimately spend more time together in-person.
A social venue can be a pub, a poker club, a chat group, a subreddit, or a feed of writing and im...
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there's only two ways to fully decentralize something:
1. no ownership
2. collective ownership
(necessary but not sufficient)
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kinda sounds like someone cares about farcaster being more decentralized
I'm extremely bullish on the Farcaster team and the Farcaster protocol
The fact that I can write this from a completely different place and reach you still blows my mind. And to build Zapper as a FC client required 0 coordination with the merkle team. I barely chatted with Varun and Dan, and even we did, it was as pee
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just to dilute the vibes a bit, i'd like to remind everyone that this is still the funniest cast of 2025:
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thinking about some reddit lore:
remember when the reddit founder/ceo got tilted so hard that he edited peoples' comments saying "fuck /u/spez"?
that was 2016
the apology was pretty good though www.reddit.com/r/announceme...
that whole subreddit...
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the cycle of violence continues 😭💀🤣
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