My two cents on complaints about Warpcast being the dominant client for a decentralized protocol:

Bet that most of the complainers use Coinbase. Or Uniswap.

In a decentralized world, the winning clients are first among equals, as voted on by users.

If you don't like Warpcast being the A+ client, build a better one.

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Uniswap is open source for both UI and protocols, you compare some DEFI/CEX with a social protocol?

Bluesky has its main client open-source.
Mastodon the same
Lens the same 

Tell me how many social protocols do you know where the same team runs the main client and the protocol?

Do we expect Meta Threads to become more decentralized than the FC ecosystem?

Also never used Coinbase to swap even a dolar and I survived a few years in crypto without Coinbase. 

Like I said who stands to lose, if WC is opensource?
We want a better ecosystem or not?

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I'm not whining.

I am entitled to make any criticism and request anything I wish, especially when my position is that is hypocritical to say Farcaster is decentralized if Warpcast and Faracster are developed by the same team, and Warpcast has a huge list of centralized features outside of the Faracster protocol.

Saying that someone whines, because you don't like what you see is the real whine.

I mean you said it yourself that I don't have to agree, so why call it a whine then? Isn't that contradicting yourself?

Mentioning that someone is free to leave, is a classic sign that you're annoyed about what I am stating, what I am supposed to think next is that I am imprisoned?

I can throw that back at you, you can also leave if you're so annoyed, you even have block functionality and even the centralized mute thanks to WC. 

The fact that you believe people who request open-sourcing of a client that drives most of the traffic of the supposedly decentralized protocol is a whine says a lot.

It's fundamentally a philosophical difference that you don't have to agree with.

The fun thing about decentralized protocols is that you can go elsewhere where you don't have to whine.

Merkle stands to lose – I support the decision to keep it closed, and think that it will create a better ecosystem in the long run.