Farcaster

1/ How will Farcaster succeed if apps have to compete with Warpcast?

If there are enough daily active users of the protocol and the underlying data and APIs are actually permissionless, people will build new and interesting apps.

This has been the plan since the beginning (channels being a new thing along the way).

i’m standing fully behind @dwr.eth in this debate

there is many many many many people in the world and barrier to entry farcaster eco as a dev will imo decrease over time (through better infra and companies working on it)

as long as there are customers on the networks, new clients and experiments will be built

Personally I am more worried about the « ownership » of the protocol than the app competition space.

I know there is an FIP process but it essentially boils down to « whatever hub runners decide to run », and there is a strong incentive for hubs to run whatever MM tells them to.

Do we know who runs hubs?

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The centralization of the protocol is scary.

It is a far cry from the Steemit/Hive system, where in order to control the protocol you must be chosen by the community...