Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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The skiff situation is a good reminder of why decentralized ecosystems are so valuable.

Challenge question @dwr.eth @v : how far along is Farcaster in this regard? If hypothetically your team got acquihired by Facebook (or Tencent, or...) tomorrow, how well would the ecosystem be able to keep going?

In addition to what @v said, I would say having a solid, open source dual platform (iOS / Android) mobile client is critical. So much of Farcaster usage through Warpcast is on mobile and there's no clear 2nd mobile client today.

thoughts on users self-hosting their own FC front end PWA? (assume it’s trivial for them to get one)

I think experience wise an App will be better than PWA . 
IF it's open-source community can always fork if original app turn malicious route.

Training myself to become a public market investor .

sure, but if you own the code and serve yourself the UI, you’re guaranteed that the app cannot “turn malicious” (unless you’re a masochist)