Thoughtful criticism, backed by data, got some of us blackballed on Farcaster. I love the idea of a decentralized protocol, but when power and attention are concentrated within an opinionated client, decentralization doesn’t really exist in practice. And if everyone spends the majority of their time on a single client, can you truly call it a protocol?

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).

> And if everyone spends the majority of their time on a single client, can you truly call it a protocol?

Base launching a Farcaster feed in CB Wallet will change this.

> And if everyone spends the majority of their time on a single client, can you truly call it a protocol?

Base launching a Farcaster feed in CB Wallet will change this.

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x3ea95b82

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

> Neynar isn’t fully independent from Merkle

They are and that's a claim without evidence.

Love to see a well funded team taking a chance. But I didn’t join yesterday. There any many more dead clients. And the clients I use the most today (Recaster + Tunecaster) both depend on Neynar infrastructure which is a good or bad thing depending on how you want to look at it. Neynar isn’t fully independent from Merkle, I believe you are investors which can be a conflict.