ace
@ace
is bluesky the most direct competitor to farcaster? apple : microsoft = farcaster : x? if you had to pick one which one is it?
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Nickolas
@franceschina.eth
There's also a16z latest investment, Towns
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ace
@ace
yea but its closer to discord dna no? @benrbn
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Boris Mann
@boris
Towns uses a (lightly forked) Matrix Protocol underneath. Which is very flexible and _could_ have a number of different UIs on top. But it’s a tough user experience and they have to glue blockchains onto it too.
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Nickolas
@franceschina.eth
ah I was wondering ... I only read about it last week and was like "gdamn I cant keep up with al lthese things"
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Boris Mann
@boris
Many of them - like Matrix Protocol and ActivityPub - have been around for a while (like 5 years) but are now moving into a phase where people build specialized apps and networks on top. Everyone’s look to grab the crown of “next big social protocol”
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Ben Rubin
@benrbn
unfortunately we won't be able to stick with matrix (despite our hopes) it assumes that all nodes are trusted. that won’t work for a decentralized protocol. many contributions by HNT to the project got merged & even more (around that topic) hv been effectively rejected. so we moved to forge our own future
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Boris Mann
@boris
The flip side of protocols which have one main company / one main codebase implementation! I did browse through your PRs and saw them getting shutdown.
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