Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
On storage - Don't overthink it since casts you like or reply will likely be pruned at some point - Farcaster's explicit goal is *real-time* global state. - I fully expect people to offer paid (or free with ads) archiving services, a Wayback Machine type thing, etc.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
And you can always buy more storage if you're a preservationist.
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
Preservationist here. What I'm worried about is not so much the increasing cost of preserving my activity over the years. I'm concerned that in many of the FIP-2 use cases, I will not be able to preserver fc activity that's important to me.
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
For example, comments on my blog posts. How can I preserve comments from every single user that used FIP-2 to comment on my blog? Or likes on my 15-minutes-of-fame cast? These are not mine, and don't even belong to a single user I could buy storage for.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Just save the comments within the app?
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
If you have to implement something like this, you could probably use a web2 commenting form. There are advantages to using fc, but the value proposition starts to look less attractive. What if there was a way to purchase storage units not just for a user's messages, but also other messages that interest someone?
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
So, we would need a new MESSAGE_TYPE_SAVE that can point to any message, and would preserve it and make it count against my own quotas. From an end-user perspective this is like a bookmark, but it can point to any message type, so it's more powerful. Does this sound like a feasible/reasonable workaround @dwr.eth?
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
It's not simple, there should be a remove_save too, and there are complications in the logic. And I guess that hubs are not optimised for something like this. But at a very high level.
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