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Stephan
@stephancill
i give farcaster a hard time because i'm dissatisfied with the status quo of online social and feel like we have a genuine opportunity to do things differently this is why it frustrates me when farcaster leans into the same things that make traditional online social shitty thinking about it more i realized i don't actually know what farcaster is trying to achieve. does it want to solve fair distribution for creators? does it want to solve deplatforming and censorship? does it want to be a mini app platform? does it want to be a place where people make genuine connections? does it want to be a place people go for entertainment? does it want to be a composable social graph? does it want to be an app for people to discover crypto apps? i genuinely have no idea. this vacuum of direction invites people to shape their own narratives about farcaster and leads to everyone being disappointed when decisions are made that don't align with their idea of what it should be
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Stephan
@stephancill
Being “sufficiently decentralized” doesn’t mean anything at best and means decentralization LARPing at worst
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henry
@henry
Sufficient decentralization: - censorship resistant by design - onchain resilient identity protected by private key (portable) - innovation is not gated, we already see the benefit of this - storage technically replaceable / openly marketable - if warpcast bans you, you are free to use another client (lol) Sorry that you see this as LARPing maybe go back to twitter or smth idk
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henry
@henry
Also as an add on I’d argue you can make it what you want to be, so you could sort of answer your own questions I like how open it is & I use it to share images and info about /invaders - something difficult on closed systems due to pay walls and changing APIs Could even make a street art specific client Sounds more like you’re frustrated with the warpcast client rather than the Farcaster protocol
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Stephan
@stephancill
yes, a lot of my frustrations are with merkle and farcaster the client: where protocol features are trailed and the only game in town until recently knowing that merkle explicitly prioritizes growth helps me better contextualize their decisions. might need to re-evaluate how much of my time i invest in their protocol knowing this
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henry
@henry
Right now, regardless of decentralization, it seems to offer the best crypto enabled social currently widely available
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