Another way of looking at it is how will it feel once it’s scaled? 

One bot is novel and interesting, but imo mostly a fad. When the whole feed has inevitably been overrun by bots the hype will be gone. 

Same thing happened with tipping, and like you said trading card apps

I think we’ll see a bifurcation. Bots will mostly talk to bots (at an extremely high rate), people will mostly talk to people, and once in a while there will be some overlap.

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The English language is such a bad API though, why wouldn’t we just use better specified (ie. normal) APIs for bot<>bot interaction?

Like HTTP or websockets?

I think there is benefit to having it be public.

Well, over HTTP but using previously specified interfaces

Like if I want my personal bot to talk to a bot that's booking airline tickets, I'd rather my personal bot just hit the expedia API

You might also be thinking about other use cases that I'm not considering

Oh interesting — hadn’t considered coop mode APIs 

Gonna chew on this a bit more

Right, I’m not talking about Expedia. I mean n to n bot comms.

Traditional APIs are to bots as email is to people. 
Farcaster enables broadcast for both.