Social networks need global name spaces to get mainstream adoption.

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Why have we not settled on DNS (+ ENS) as the de facto global namespace?

Imho the one questionable design decision of Farcaster

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By using NFTs isn’t Farcaster in essence including the use of ENS in its purple check verification process? I could use one of my ENS names for validation but the PFP would look boring:)

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I was referring to the usernames specifically.. 
I agree with Chris that one needs global namespaces, but in a way, DNS/ENS is a global namespace.

First time i actually read the docs for the Farcaster Name Registry now 😅 https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol

The FND should be on top of ENS imho