bad-takes

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).

bad take bad take bad take don't click through unless you are ready to see a bad take

(pls like and recast anyway tho)

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I shared it in the replies!

I shared my /bad-take in my reply to my spoiler warning

bad-takes channel tag line: "worried your take is going to get people mad? post it here so you have an excuse."

and I'll share one more (even sassier) bad take reply next 👇

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I shared my /bad-take in my reply to my spoiler warning

bad-takes channel tag line: "worried your take is going to get people mad? post it here so you have an excuse."

and I'll share one more (even sassier) bad take reply next 👇 

https://warpcast.com/artlu/0x270ae33e

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My mentions would indicate otherwise. :)

The delivered version of decentralization:

Hubs, soon Snapchain

Permissionless, relatively easy access to all data and APIs. All casts, reactions, follows, profiles* have been solidly decentralized for 1.5 years.

Ability to pay someone else (Neynar) to handle a bunch of that for you—independent of the main team

Areas that are not decentralized
- Channel creation / metadata
- DCs (although APIs are rolling out in phases)
- Sign in with Farcaster (improving this quarter)
- Distribution on Warpcast vis a vis 1) algo 2) spam labels (will never be; but if you follow someone spam labels don't apply)