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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
The future of social media is envisioned as a space where platforms are governed by the participants themselves, rather than being controlled by corporate gatekeepers. So how are we feeling?
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adrienne
@adrienne
Some thoughts - The Farcaster definition for sufficient decentralization is "if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it" and that's good enough for me for a social network protocol. My expectation when I joined wasn't so much that we as users would "own the network" but that we would "own our identity" Your desire - for a network or platform governed by users - couldn't that be deployed at a client level? Imagine an alt warpcast that is user owned and user governed? Couldn't that achieve what you want even if FC stays the same?
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
βπ»π― - <sufficient> decentralisation! π β ___ on a scale through to: <total/absolute> decentralisation (many such things on the spectrum) I LOVE LOVE LOVE the insane effectiveness of the merkle-tree, do the least possible (sufficient) to pragmatically scale and scope (nimbly explore the design space) while's also picking ALL (or as much as is possible) of the security/permissionless/open/commons/standards properties of these kinds of brave-new-world security systems.
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
Read, Write, Own. The ownership part is very important, and itβs not supposed to be just your FID, but also the value that the network creates. The only value Iβve seen so far is the people Iβve met and the memecoins. Merkle raised money for Warpcast, not the network. You can definitely spin up your own client and be as opinionated or open as you want. But most clients today are dependent on a single infrastructure player which is Neynar, so not very decentralized. But the main issue is that the protocol is being maintained and developed by the dominant client. It has been captured and you must go through Merkle in order to implement any of your own ideas.
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