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Today's Essay: The Primitives of a Farcaster Application

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At first I called them Farcaster Platform Apps to hint that its more like a Facebook App then an Internet App. Maybe I'm really talking about Warpcast Apps but aspirationally want them to be Farcaster apps.

I have a problem with this. I think there are two layers in Farcaster and we don't have the proper terms to address them. Let me give some examples, not sure how to describe it properly.

Internet apps: Email, Web, FTP, video streaming
Web apps: twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc.

Of course what you describe are "Farcaster apps". They would be at the "web apps" layer (could even say they run inside "farcaster browsers", like Warpcast, Supercast, etc.)

But "Farcaster apps" are also Warpcast DCs, and Warps, which would be at the "Internet apps" layer. Even channels for now.

How do we make the distinction?

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I'm intrigued at a sentence....what would be a good example of this: 

'Creators could use Composer Actions to craft and publish content directly within the platform' 

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