Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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The skiff situation is a good reminder of why decentralized ecosystems are so valuable.

Challenge question @dwr.eth @v : how far along is Farcaster in this regard? If hypothetically your team got acquihired by Facebook (or Tencent, or...) tomorrow, how well would the ecosystem be able to keep going?

In addition to what @v said, I would say having a solid, open source dual platform (iOS / Android) mobile client is critical. So much of Farcaster usage through Warpcast is on mobile and there's no clear 2nd mobile client today.

will external clients get API access to Direct Casts at some point? 

I would entertain the idea of making my own native -litecast- ios/android app or try at it if that's on the future, if not, it seems really hard to compete since i mostly want DC's !