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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
In retrospect, decentralized social network has been terrible framing for Farcaster. Two recent frames that are better: 1. Farcaster is an economy — social network + crypto wallets, small but high GDP per capita, h/t @woj.eth @luc 2. Programmable social — X APIs are dead, Farcaster APIs are constantly getting better, h/t @six It's still (mostly) decentralized under the hood, but lean into the things that it's really good at relative to the competition.
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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚
@icetoad.eth
Seems to be working as an alright frame for Bluesky, though they have much less crypto focus.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The vast majority of people are not joining Bluesky because it's decentralized. They are joining a centralized app (Bluesky) that's not controlled by Elon and offers a decent UX. And that's been extraordinarily successful for them! If that was the primary criteria, Mastodon, Nostr or Farcaster are more decentralized today. Good write up on all the stuff that's not decentralized today on Bsky. https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won
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Yassine Landa
@yassinelanda.eth
I have been arguing that users want control/choice over their graph, feed providers, and moderation providers. I think Bluesky has got that right decentralising the middleware better than platforms that focused on decentralizing the backend or front ends! Not sure they « won » yet, their mods team are slammed with +3k reports a minute!
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Define middleware?
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Yassine Landa
@yassinelanda.eth
Choice of Feed generators and labellers are first citizen in the main app. At TrustCon in SF this past July, this is the lens that people used to describe Bluesky vs X. Word spread from there. For X quitters (or fired!), it is a platform that empowers users more. I am sure backing by Jack & others play a role too. FC enables some of this already as data is open but no way to tinker with user experience for 3rd parties and open it up for new devs. This feel like a easy-ish win as it is a meta that speaks to both decentralization maxis and a growing population of « normies ». There is also a better moat to build here so might attract long term builders!
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