Dan Romero on Farcaster

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In the next few months, the Farcaster protocol will have the most meaningful increase in DAU decentralization since we started. Base will be adding a Farcaster-powered feed to Coinbase Wallet—an app that has millions of existing users and wallets with balances. They will have a paths for both existing users and new users to onboard to Farcaster, i.e. creating FIDs. That's a meaningful, tangible step toward increasing decentralization on the protocol. So if you're claiming that we're making changes to limit client competition, you are, in fact, factually incorrect (both in what we are working on at the protocol level as well the likely outcome after CB's launch).

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Other stuff we are working on: 1. Snapchain -- better reliability across clients 2. Farcaster Connect -- making sign in with Farcaster client agnostic 3. Auth addresses -- allowing users to grant elevated permissions to other clients 4. Direct Cast APIs available to other clients

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Our original thesis was incorrect: a decentralized permissionless protocol would allow other clients to grow users for the protocol. This evolved into product-led protocol development (see blog post). And even that has fallen short on the most important thing developers want: daily active users and user growth. Updated version of this philosophy: 1. Make the underlying data and APIs as open as possible 2. Ensure that accounts / identities are portable and sovereign 3. Build an opinionated, high-quality client that is relentlessly focused on user growth. There will be reasonable criticism early on "how can I trust you won't stop building the protocol", but time and consistent shipping on protocol promises will earn trust (and assuming 1 and 2 actually work). 4. At some sufficient scale—not sooner than 10M+ DAU at the protocol—work on further decentralizing the protocol / hardening it from capture. And because you have a big client, you can do that. https://danromero.org/product-led-protocols.html

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When to reduce the signup fee? otherwise it's expensive to bring millions of existing users for CB..

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i actually do subscribe to this, some jumbled thoughts - we need top down, heavyweight bets to drive DAU versus building a dev platform that enables few small-scale shots on goal. - it's a time-scale thing. you're not killing competition, it's too early for that, we need to set the foundation (DAU, TAM) to actually enable real client competition. - base, warpcast (and maybe some others) must go all-in to bring new FIDs. but we need farcaster to be a reliable data layer for anyone who wants to take a big shot on goal to onboard users. with almost zero cost/friction to onboard new users to protocol (not warpcast).

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lfg! wen direct DMs api?

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I like that I can run a hub and that it was easier for me to be effective with it compared to bluesky also appreciate the dev first mental model to the ecosystem happy with those two invariants

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@miguelgarest.eth

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Really appreciate the color on what’s not worked in the past

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@jonathancolton

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@bluelizardo.eth

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hopefully real users too, not just bots saying "nice" & "beautiful"

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Good job.Keep moving!

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We are building Token for Decentralized Edtech, do feel Warpcast is right paltform to launch the token. If yes any playbook.

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Love this kind of updates thing.. i hate silent mode lol

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Bullish Farcaster !

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