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Chris Dixon
@cdixon.eth
Asking users to pay (and go through UX hassles) to register domain names is not a mainstream user experience. It was tried many times including with RSS and didn’t work. If your protocol design relies on it, it won’t scale. Centralized intermediaries will step in to streamline as Twitter et al did with RSS.
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@grunt.eth
that's where subdomains come in. Coinbase is doing to for free right?
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@elie
What if it’s a nice to have addition but not the core of the protocol?
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@satoshi
I learned that lesson <painfully> with RSS and saw Twitter wipe away years of “local minima” work. With the announcement of Hyperspace, we made it trivially easy and free and ended up with 21000+ folks who now have a “.hy” identity. We will backport it.. https://i.imgur.com/eVAwumz.jpg
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@greg
Not sure I follow - haven’t people been paying for domain names for 20 years? Maybe there’s a distinction between domains and usernames like ENS and Farcaster? Do you see those as the same (both should be free)?
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@syed
I’d push back and say people are starting to understand that if they’re not paying they are the product. Years of ad revenue and selling of data has made people more aware of the incentives. Not the same market. Twitter and Netflix charging drives the point home. Maybe before was all a 0 interest rate phenomenon l
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@sha
If the payment is pennies or fractions of a penny and only includes one more UX button or step, is it really that much more of a blockade to adoption?
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@timdaub.eth
I don‘t understand what you‘re trying to say, can you say more please?
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@macbudkowski
What if you had to pay after a certain threshold, e.g., 10k followers/domain views per month, and got some extra features?
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@pdr
What do you think of the Apple iCloud+ / Cloudflare domain name registration flow? Screen recording https://share.icloud.com/photos/0afV8h1Y1iiGkSN2Acky-Bp_w https://i.imgur.com/v1Vwkpb.jpg
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@sha
Does that mean you and Marc disagree on Farcaster or does Marc agree with you, yet promote and use it nonetheless?
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@nbragg
@tip
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@abhishek1point0
But isn’t this a proposed business model for Farcaster? cc: @dwr.eth 🤔
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@smn
If domains will be free to register, then expect cyber-squatters. They will be registering domains left and right.
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@di
What if 'domain' is actually a decentralized cross-app username, the digital identity you own and always take with you, together with souldbound properties and on-chain activities? RSS looks obsolete in this new world, where content is permanent and its presentation layer is fully decoupled as a dapp.
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