Boris Mann

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I’m going to host a dedicated Frames discussion with AT Protocol / Bluesky app builders, and will announce here when I schedule it. Thanks for sharing @boscolo.eth

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OK Berlin, we are coming in hot next week. @depatchedmode now also on the ground for Causal Islands Berlin If you’re local, buy a ticket and join us. 2 days, single track, future of computing https://berlin.causalislands.com

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Recommendation for US based lawyer for company formation and first raise of SAFE + token warrants? Literally for a friend 😀 - I mostly know Canadian lawyers.

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I'm super excited to announce Causal Islands Berlin - Community Edition! The Oct 4th - 5th event is going to be a lower-cost, smaller event, and tickets are on sale now. Discounts until the end of Aug for early tickets. https://causalislands.com/berlin/berlin-community-edition-tickets-available/

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At Paradigm Coworking in SF. Lovely space Arcana.

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I got my @daylightcomputer a couple of days ago and posted some quick unboxing pics. https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2024/07/09/daylight-computer-unboxing/ I bought it 2 years ago when the company even had a different name. I’m looking forward to exploring it more.

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Been thinking about this across multiple ecosystems beyond mobile. Apps is itself a broad category - think also WordPress plugins, Browser extensions, Frames And: app stores, distribution, discovery, curation, payment @jbrukh https://x.com/jbrukh/status/1803252699455955123

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One of the biggest censorship vectors for blockchain protocols is RPC / lack of light clients. This is solved by more P2P-ish data transfer (eg IPFS, Farcaster Hubs, ATProtocol PDS), but this is also a UX barrier: running servers on phones, at home, etc is hard and potentially pricey.

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Inviting people to come to Vancouver this July for LOCALHOST https://writing.dwebyvr.org/announcing-localhost/ A week of community events alongside the IETF120 meetings

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In protocol terms, you don’t opt out of SMTP storing and forwarding email. An email client or hosting service would have its own ToS, some of which depends on what its jurisdiction is.

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“You can’t just point at things and call them all protocols”

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Operating systems = protocol layer. For Apple and Google, accounts, storage, and payment are included. Windows ??? Legacy install base. Apple bundles user data + synch. Cross-platform? Good luck! There ARE new opportunities for “OS” layers opening up. Not sure who has the patient capital to go for it.

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Game publishers have moved to building in house gaming engines. That’s the protocol layer. They use a studio to development IP into a game. That’s a full stack app, including a client. DLC and modding tools can extend that app. Frames, alt clients. Publishers also provide accounts & payment.

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The word client is also a red herring. What app are you building that sits on top of the account system and social graph of Farcaster?

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The next boss for Farcaster-the-protocol is 1M DAU @dwr.eth is calling his shot at the final boss of 10M DAUs Some paths to get there: proto apps that go beyond microblogging and country specific growth (these can be venture sized) One layer up, vibrant dev community around primitives.

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Immediately made me think of WebSim https://websim.ai Toggle into hallucinate mode, trained on Farcaster data.

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Concrete example: @owl @depatchedmode and I decide to do a job listings type. We can include a body (so that it shows up in all clients) but we want to store jobs on FC. So we make our own little JSON payload and stick it in MESSAGE_TYPE_EXTRA Others are welcome to adopt same … or not! @horsefacts.eth

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Fun story: I completely forgot I bought the founders edition when the company had a different name 2 years ago. The company is a public benefit corp, runs on non Google Play store Android.

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Hey @mg — is /xmtp group chat based on MLS? Does it work with multiple / p2p servers? Pointers to architecture links appreciated!

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The Livepeer team are hiring for a very special product role: the network-as-product https://livepeer.org/jobs/4502390

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