This a great opportunity for another client.

Warpcast is a US-based team. No plans to expand internationally. We think we can build a great client for English speaking users. Don't have enough bandwidth to do a good job for international users. 

I know @phaverapp @fireflyapp have large communities of international users. Also @supercast.

(I ran international expansion for Coinbase for several years and learned that the hard way.)

abdicating responsibility for making a multilingual social network/app bizarre for a billion dollar company

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You think it should be a top priority? Valuation has nothing to do with it.

I think it should be possible for non english speakers to get distribution on this decentralized social media protocol by getting power badges, yes

What is the revealed preference is overwhelmingly that users want to follow people who speak their own language?

We ran the experiment pre-priority mode and power badge and iirc you were complaining.

Facebook didn't internationalize until after the won the US market and after 100M users. And then it was a hand to hand combat struggle.

We have 500K sign ups.

That you would even use Facebook as analogy here is telling.

If I ran Warpcast I’d consider getting out ahead of token incentivized negativity campaigns and say that Casts, Frames, and Bots that reward antisocial behavior like unfollowing & muting will not be amplified by the algorithm. You can make them but we won’t highlight them.

I also find it amusing this is also you just 4 months ago. :)

I also find it amusing this is also you just 4 months ago. :)

https://warpcast.com/nicholas/0x4e58c86e

i have always argued for first class translation in-app because i love being exposed to global voices. niche preference, no doubt. 

however these highly opinionated prioritization takes can’t be made in a vacuum of how they affect PERCEPTION of farcaster. there isn’t scale to support an international client, and there is no immediate viable future in competing with merkle that way. 

if fb could internationalize 20 years ago, why can’t merkle today?