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

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

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maybe there's a way to use it as a guest?

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?

that's not true, sign in with farcaster apps usually spin their own graphs and use farcaster to solve the cold start, all of the apps on lens use lens global graphs or their own subgraphs, which are also on lens. the only one that doesn't use lens directly in there is 0xppl. everyone else is either on lens or wip.