Work in progress: how to think about layers of the Farcaster ecosystem today and in the future. Email included for reference to another popular protocol where people have freedom to use different clients today. (Mail servers and gmail identity are less portable, of course). https://i.imgur.com/vTHufbU.jpg

Farcloud is an interesting idea, but will clients really integrate multiple such tools, and what if Farcloud ends up becoming a centralized web2 company that locks user data in again?

Would really love for farcaster protocol or a protocol on top of farcaster to tackle this eventually

Building FOSS via @frames, /open-frames to help decentralized social win. a16z CSX23. farcasterchannels.com farcaster.id

Sure companies can try, but I think getting to the world in which the majority of private data is locked in vs not locked in is path dependent, and there’s the opportunity for the protocol to at least attempt to increase the likelihood we end up in the world where users can freely move their private data

> what if Farcloud ends up becoming a centralized web2 company that locks user data in again

When designing protocols, assume all companies, on some time horizon, will try to centralize for value extraction.

i.e. why we are putting data constraints on Hubs to make it reasonable for developers to run one