On storage

- Don't overthink it since casts you like or reply will likely be pruned at some point

- Farcaster's explicit goal is *real-time* global state.

- I fully expect people to offer paid (or free with ads) archiving services, a Wayback Machine type thing, etc.

I love this feature as someone concerned about privacy and reducing my digital footprint.

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Yes! More things should be ephemeral.

I also think people overrate old tweets, casts, etc. and underrate the liability they present.

I agree that many things people post should be ephemeral, but there are also a lot of cases where I might post something that's meant to be used as a reference for many years in the future.

i like the sentiment here, but isn’t the fact that i can buy storage for someone else at odds with this?

“you can always store someone’s old tweets” is not a good counterpoint.

here i can pay a tiny fee to have your old casts available for the world to see since they’re available from your account

Agree. People want to have access to all data but then don’t know what to do with it.