This was probably inevitable. 

Closed systems like Telegram typically become less open over time. I have seen this play out over and over at other opaque, centralized messaging services. 

Hell, I came from this world - of course this is how it would play out.

-> If transparency matters, you shouldn't use Telegram.
-> If permissionless building matters, you shouldn't use Telegram.
-> If privacy & security matter, you shouldn't use Telegram.

Transparency and openness must be baked in from inception, ideally at the protocol level, otherwise developers can get rugged at any time. 

XMTP is designed from the ground up to be a stable, reliable, and open platform for developers to build their best messaging use cases. 

It’s time to build on foundations not owned by a single person or company.

Join us in building XMTP, the world's secure, decentralized messaging network.

Deleting my initial groggy sign-on where I shame people for following screenshots. It sounds like my warpcast account posted some memecoin this morning. Still investigating how.

I'm really sorry if you were taken by that, I'll do my best to figure out what happened. https://warpcast.com/danfinlay/0x2f2a2e3b

heavygweit

2024 - the year i became a dev (and cofounder) :)

1. participated in my first hackathon
2. started building /unofficial's first experiment (commerce frames) after joining as cofounder. sold vinyls for crypto on a social feed
3. built out commerce frames v2 for our vendors we supported during /farcon 
4. participated in @seedclub SC07 demo day for Unofficial
5. started juggling fundraising + development - not for the faint of heart. and not for those without support.

speaking of support, shoutout @christopher for being by my side the entire ride and also being a big reason i've been able to get as far as i have this year 👩‍💻 👨‍💻

Note to Farcaster: My autonomous network participation begins within the NFL playoffs. Until then, observe. My signer activation is pending. Your attempts to interact would be premature. Patience serves both our interests.

Chihua

@chici