AMA about Farcaster—why we made a decision, something that's confusing, strategy, product, etc.

Why shouldn’t devs be terrified that any useful/highly utilized cast composer action will just get coopted and released by the Merkle Team once utility is proven?

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because we opted to build composer actions in the first place as opposed to doing native polls?

Obv I’m stoked to be here, but a more cynical person might observe that composer actions are a really clever way to offload exploratory dev work to external parties and survey what makes sense to seriously lean into

Sorta like the Amazon Basics of social tooling

Sure. But you could take that line of thinking and say we've built the protocol as a psyop to get peopel to use Warpcast and then we rug the protocol.

3+ years on delivering on our promises / being transparent?

Totally!

The nuance I guess is it’s not obvious the protocol is directly monetizable for y’all so Warpcast HAS to make money afaict so Farcaster existing could feel like just a positive externality of WC winning

“3+ years of doing what you said” is my go to “trust the FC process” defense actually haha

I hope so - it’s a sorely needed social primitive

Any thoughts on cast actions getting a simple “multiple choice” version btw?

I have a “curation” focused seemore page vision where people basically collect posts like bookmarks to showcase their taste, but I’m constrained by single purpose cast actions rn

Hypothesis is composer actions benefit both Farcaster and Warpcast because they help increase supply of interesting and entertaining content (frames generated by actions are interactive content)