“Conflating Farcaster 'the protocol' with Farcaster 'the social media platform built on top of the protocol' limits people's perspective on what can be built on Farcaster.”

I think this mistake even exists at the protocol level. User data, links, verifications are the core social primitives that can be integrated into almost every app

Casts and reactions almost feel too opinionated to sit alongside those primitives and they dominate the cost of participating in the network as a validator

dan is accurate in that the tangible app experience is necessary for the protocol to proliferate (pop3 w/out email client goes to zero)

that said, the long game is mosdef experiences that run on fc rails but aren’t built around casts and reactions

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Imagine how much cheaper it could have been to onboard users if storage didn’t include casts/reactions

mosdef. but without having that data onchain the volume of signal on which to build wouldn’t be sufficient, no