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Have noticed there are two popular perspectives on what Farcaster should focus on. The first is “grow users”. People in this camp tend to be building consumer apps. They also tend to have raised some amount of funding. They have relatively higher time preference. The second camp is “optimize for decentralization”. It’s nuanced since most people are in favor of some flavor of sufficient decentralization, but they would prefer fewer centralized experiments and more proactive FIP-based experiments. There’s also a general desire for governance that’s not “rough consensus and running code”. There’s no proposed solution here. We’ve traditionally been more in the first camp. But probably some small changes we could make to make the second camp a bit happier without sacrificing speed of iteration (the most important advantage for an upstart).

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I am in the second camp, and I pushed that for years many things that I thought would help fostering a more open environment, and a lot of those are now implemented. With that said I had over 40 devs that have build products on farcaster and in most instances have aligned with my view on decentralization, permissionless and openness. I will confess I don't trust the team at all with all the VC money involved, and reluctance of giving more control to users and community. I don't know how hard should I press on, should I make all the inner workings and views about the product as public as I can, I should be more reserved, I have no idea what I know is that I don't like gating, and conflicts of interest, which drive me to think is better to push on until I think I can't convince anyone about the benefits of an open farcaster. Only with the elimination of centralized control farcaster will ever be worth more than a dime in my view, otherwise it has already failed if that future is not assured.

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