Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Please spread the word: there are 0 economic rewards—currently or in the future—for running a Hub. Only run a Hub if you: 1. Find it fun 2. Find it useful for your project or your business There's no surprise or gotcha that comes later. All of the YouTube video tutorials are lying to you about a potential reward.
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Mark 🎩
@web3withmark
Yes crypto Twitter has been going on about this. I think what happened is some projects rewarded some people for running hubs with an airdrop and now they think it’s going to happen for everything @0xbdandrew this is what we were talking about. @dwr.eth out of curiosity - are there any negative side effects to this growth (other than people not getting rewards)
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Makes the network slower
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nicholas 🧨
@nicholas
It's surprising to me that Farcaster suffers when more Hubs come online. Is this a technical limitation to be overcome or an inalienable aspect of the network's design? Is there an ideal number of Hubs?
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Chris
@chrisdom
its most likely because you need to connect to different hubs to get data, so if the hub is on a shitty $5 vps (the vercel killer as we know) then fetching data will be slow. they could implement a "lag" metric and ignore hubs with huge lag, but this gets very complex quickly. i also don't know what im talking about so take it with a bucket of salt.
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Shane da Silva
@sds
This is a factor, and also we did not expect the system to reach this many hubs this quickly. Ethereum, for example, has around ~7K nodes at time of writing. https://ethernodes.org
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