Haven’t don’t one of these in a while — AMA!

Working on a permissionless social networking protocol is a worthwhile use of time

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Cohost /gmfarcaster livestream Farcaster news show 🎙️💬 Founder Tenger Ways, bringing joy into work with DevOps practices 🤗 mom x 3 💗

Building something I’d be proud to tell my future grandchildren about

re crypto decentralized social and crypto

Yes, but I suspect crypto will continue to blend into the concept of the internet and being online

What motivates you?😉

My real question:
Do you think decentralized social can exist on an entirely different plane as cryptocurrency or are they necessarily related?

https://danromero.org/rss-plus.html

https://danromero.org/canon.html

What were the most valuable external inputs (a book, a conversation, etc.) that helped you develop your mental model for Farcaster?

building far.quest & @wieldlabs.eth. cofounder at miy.com ventures. FID #274. Previously Square/Cash App. https://hiimnico.xyz/

Permissionless protocol and progress on channels as a new social primitive. Network isn’t overrun by spam.

what is the ideal state for Farcaster by the end of the year?

nyc, @cgdittmeier on chesscom, @Christian_Dtmr elsewhere. past: founded evaluate market

What has been your favorite surprising or unintended use case you’ve observed users implementing on the Farcaster protocol?

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

Micro: I’m actually easily distracted but Varun is quite good at reigning that in.

Macro: Being introverted helps with being content with family + work and not much else.

How do you keep priorities so well focused?

Chasing Curiosity. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Fullstack Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7. 
icbk.me/tayyab.fc

May have worked better because decentralized social media would have been less sexy, less fragmentation

If you know all that you know now about Farcaster, do you think it would have worked in 2017?

dev + founder | @onsenbot @maschine @herocast

Build as an open source project / community.

Build a new primitive or use case.

Eventually, total number of DAU of protocol will be big enough to support multiple Warpcast-like clients as businesses. May be a while though.

how can new Farcaster clients compete with Warpcast while not being VC-funded? (besides channel-specific apps)

on a scale of 1-10, how much of your productive output is written code?

working @ /neynar   🪐  casting @ /rish

I generally don’t like sweet unless cut with fat.

building products onchain, hacking /farhack, yapping /dylan | dylansteck.com

Read 

To watch, football. To play, squash

1) What do you like to do for fun outside of Farcaster?

2) Favorite sport?

building /bracket | talking /greatbooks | ex-BCG, ex-PHD | poli + phil + econ

Has Threads and Friendtech changed anything (product/UX/strategy etc)?

photos, memes, bjj, lakers, kookslams creator.

I’m casually interested but crew up with the Celtics

saw you chiming in on NBA channel. got a team you like most? grow up with?

Jack of all trades. Here to make it with my friends. socials @evmavericks 🦁Hosting: /696 /hot /farvibes /runitup /6 /best /top /999 /bay /area /dance /kekw

Until we reach the point of diminishing returns!

With introduction of sub channels, it feels like farcaster is moving from Twitter towards Reddit. How far do you want to go in that direction?

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

20. hacking @ https://www.spire.dev/ 
previously intern Nethermind, epns.io

why are you copying bad twitter designs?
I get that people have muscle memory but does it really make a big difference?

manic pixie scream girl | writing comics at /covenclassics | www.covenclassics.com | /brunette-brigade /manga-anime /community | https://x.com/rakshitaphilip

I like NFTs.

I have a few valuable ones, but have shifted to more a collectible mindset with open editions.

What do you think about NFT projects? What do you usually collect (non farcaster projects/artworks)?