lens

the lens.xyz onboarding flow is pretty neat

1. free account creation
2. choose an app to use your account with

clear messaging, maintains neutrality towards clients

requiring users to create a farcaster account to use your app feels like an anti pattern since they won't have any of the benefits that a farcaster account is supposed to provide when they sign into your app (social graph, profile data, etc)

you're almost better off having a email / social auth / wallet sign up flow for users without a farcaster account

what if farcaster miniapps would have a dedicated entrypoint for onboarding purposes?

those apps should have dedicated entrypoints to sign users in with lens though. half of them don't use lens as a primary authentication method anymore

something that will trip them up though is the fact that i signed up with a wallet in my browser. now when i want to use any of these apps on my phone i'm going to have to import this wallet into a wallet on my phone – ngmi

passkeys ideally solve ths

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it's also worth noting that lens.xyz is a developer-facing site, which makes sense as it's the website for the protocol

there is a lot they can improve, including adding more detail about these apps – maybe when you select one it should preview the app and tell you a bit more about it. but i was referring to the "Create your Lens account and use it on these apps" message

What do you find clear about their messaging?
The screen you share has a bunch of apps with no descriptions of what they are. Does that change if you click on them?

https://farcaster.xyz/stephancill/0x913e4e23

I agree, what do you think of the content?

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What’s your fav client?

Just saw that Orb got acquired by Mask Network

I joined Lens couple days ago and I have to say I really like it.

People are super supportive over there and it doesn't feel as "business" as Farcaster does.

same feeling! also the family wallet contributes a lot.

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Not directly but indirectly the lens team looks at the family team and is inspired by your commits

Builder, Replay guy on X and Farcaster , Community builder

That is nice, but is it a social dapp like Farcaster?

No, two different protocols.

Lens is now their own zkSync-based Ethereum L2, with everything running on top of their own chain.

Yes the lens.xyz is so neat and perfect UI

really? it's free to creating account on lens now?

Totally agree, their onboarding is clean and user-friendly. Makes jumping in easy.