Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
How are planning to make Farcaster sign ups free? 1. At the protocol, there will always be some amount of cost. Truly free would mean you can spin up an infinite number of spam accounts and fill up the network with junk, making Snapchain unusable. If you allow accounts to be deleted / removed at the protocol, you remove decentralization / introduce a backdoor for censorship. 2. Today the protocol fee is $2 per sign up. We're reducing that $0.20 in the next few weeks. And then there's a path reducing it to $0.10 or $0.05. 3. Warpcast is experimenting with offering a free sign up if you connect a qualifying X / Twitter account. We hope we can offer other methods like phone number verification, proof of human credentials, etc. in the future. Important: we're still paying the protocol fee under the hood. So we're effectively "underwriting" new users. Any app can take this approach. Continued in next cast...
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ciefa 🐌 eth/acc
@ciefa.eth
>If you allow accounts to be deleted / removed at the protocol, you remove decentralization / introduce a backdoor for censorship. Wait - isn't it possible to get rid of a FID? Or was that "just" a transfer to basically any other wallet address. I still have the issue from the "weird" sign up and have to send the FID of the wallet holding my ens somewhere else. Do you happen to know if anyone has made a tool for it? If not I'll do it asap, been pushing it aside since I joined lol.
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ciefa 🐌 eth/acc
@ciefa.eth
Btw, who to report bugs to in terms of SMS verification? On a brand account I manage there's a bug, I cannot verify it using the number anymore but I cannot select another one either.
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