"no good argument"

I just gave their argument: it helps them to perfect the algo

There is nothing inherent about web3, now or ever since the beginning, that says that businesses building in it are not supposed to make their apps as entertaining as possible. Time spent just happens to be the best proxy (not ideal, I get it, but the best we have at scale) for it. 

It's also not like they're anti user feedback. They've listened to plenty of it over time and made changes that made sense to them. They have LISTENED to your feedback, but they've chosen to not implement it. We need some /nuance here. Listening doesn't necessarily mean doing what's suggested. It means you open-mindedly take the input, then PROCESS that input, and decide on an output aka whether to implement or not or maybe modify it and implement it. If you don't allow for this process, you're not respecting their autonomy.

I'll accept that "many others" have requested this but as long as it's a small minority, the tradeoff makes sense.

Too many people on here whine and complain that "Merkle doesn't listen to user feedback" when in reality what they mean is "Merkle (an independent, for-profit, centralized organization) didn't implement my specific demand"

"It's also not like they're anti user feedback. They've listened to plenty of it over time and made changes that made sense to them. They have LISTENED to your feedback, but they've chosen to not implement it. We need some nuance here. Listening doesn't necessarily mean doing what's suggested. It means you open-mindedly take the input, then PROCESS that input, and decide on an output aka whether to implement or not or maybe modify it and implement it. If you don't allow for this process, you're not respecting their autonomy."

/new-york by day 🗽 /untzuntz by night 😈 Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

I think about sometimes if an “independent, for-profit, centralized organization” is the right fit for building what we hope to be the social protocol for the world. I don’t know enough to have a meaningful opinion about it tho

/ethereum foundation | opinions are my own but more than likely they come from Vitalik's blog paragraph.xyz/@chaskin

I completely agree with the later of what you said with respect to number of nodes and the decentralized of them, agreed sufficient decentralization is the right move for the a social protocol, I’m talking solely about protocol development

With all the money Merkle raised they could easily spin out a non profit entity that solely works on the farcaster the protocol. Is that the right move? Idk I def don’t know enough to know the right answer

Only reasonable way to compete against incumbents imo, fully decentralized is too slow, bullish on sufficient decentralization, that was one of the big things that attracted me in the first place

I think it's the only viable approach when trying to innovate on an existing thing, Ethereum is different because it created a new thing entirely (and still has to live with the tradeoffs of being decentralized to the max vs. something like Solana — not better or worse, just different)