If farcaster wants to be decentralized, one entity taking the decision does not go in the right path. It might have been done another way : community vote, ...

Decentralization must occur in stages. Transparency and consistency in the process is what's most important.

I dont think Dan sending a DM is either transparent nor consistent. Would he do the same for a twitter with 2k followers ? 

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nah
https://warpcast.com/cryptogoddess/0x9ce4d1

nah
https://warpcast.com/benersing/0x640cd6

Farcaster always marketed itself as "sufficiently decentralized". Channels names could be partially centralized, the same way the default off-chain ens fnames are, with no harm done to the network.

nah
https://warpcast.com/volky/0xf300ead45e606fc5cb85bb3aa95bb22597ef2b01