Federated is worse developer experience and will become oligopoly over time (see email)

Tbh I’m so confused why the email example is used as an argument AGAINST federation

The way I understand it email is arguably one of the most sufficiently decentralised parts of the internet today

Sure most people use Gmail or outlook but it’s not even hard to use something else or even self host without any noticeable difference to anyone else (and plenty of people do!)

If farcaster becomes anything like email it will be wildly successful at its goal of being sufficiently decentralised

Worse developer experience is also debatable because I predict apps will index subsets of the network anyway as it grows too large to index in its entirety. Already saw this happening in some cases with power badge

Tbh I’m so confused why the email example is used as an argument AGAINST federation

The way I understand it email is arguably one of the most sufficiently decentralised parts of the internet today

Sure most people use Gmail or outlook but it’s not even hard to use something else or even self host without any noticeable difference to anyone else (and plenty of people do!)

If farcaster becomes anything like email it will be wildly successful at its goal of being sufficiently decentralised

Worse developer experience is also debatable because I predict apps will index subsets of the network anyway as it grows too large to index in its entirety. Already saw this happening in some cases with power badge 

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x0c0f2718

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Have tried spinning up a new email server or domain recently?

i do this somewhat regurarly (once or twice a quarter) for silly side projects that need some kind of email capability. the hardest part is getting a relativly clean ipv4 addy, but most providers are pretty accomodating with rolling your ips until you get a decent set

this is all at a (very) small scale, im sure things change once youre trying to send a few million emails a day