Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Fallacies in building decentralized social protocols / platforms in crypto: 1. It has to be financialized. 2. Everything should be onchain. 3. The protocol should avoid having an official client. 4. Verifying a user as human makes them interesting and valuable. 5. It must work with all existing standards and other protocols. 6. Funding developers proactively and directly is the key to growth. 7. Most users care about how decentralized it is, whether it's open source and generally esoteric hypotheticals about the future. What most users care about: is it interesting to use right now? What most developers care about: 1) are there valuable users and 2) can I build something that gets access to said users, i.e. decent enough APIs
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
There's more nuance to all of the above, but the 7 points above have all been criticism of Farcaster at one point or another. That's not to say you can't iterate and work towards some of the above. But focus on building for users (and most importantly, getting them to stick around) and then developers is rare.
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dylan
@dylsteck.eth
to me it’s funny how 2 and 3 have been some of the most repeated comments about farcaster and yet have ended up helping the protocol grow so much & become what it is today(to your point about these being fallacies)
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Trimaxion.eth
@trimaxion
As a dev I really appreciate the access to the social graph and how I can decide how to determine what is signal and what is noise.
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