Dan Romero on Warpcast

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Open to feedback on something we did recently to break trust. Either anon or public reply here or private in DC. I’ll only ask clarifying questions publicly and then respond in my video AMA.

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Answered a few here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCrw9DfJo4

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From a technical and development perspective, I have no issues with the changes that are being implemented because they are necessary for Farcaster to continue developing and improving. I think there shouldn’t be any problems in this regard, and everything is normal. However, from a practical and general user perspective, constant changes and altering rules, which result in user confusion, are not good in terms of UX. I believe we should move forward with community feedback and allow for the provision of the most popular minimum requirements without constant changes. For instance, if we look at the details, recent changes, especially in channel management, have been very detrimental in terms of feedback! Although these changes will be excellent in the long term, sudden shifts may lead to a loss of user trust. I completely understand that you are trying hard to improve the system, but the users are the most important priority. Because we believe it is decentralized. LFG 🫶 🔥 ❤️‍🔥

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Having an anti-squatting fnames policy, but not freeing up @leo (which I would buy or receive as a transfer), even though I’ve been here for two years and you said this was coming last year Feels like it’s just a rule for big names on twitter. Fine if the answer to my request has changed to a ‘no’, but the latest I’ve heard was a ‘yes’ with a timeline that hasn’t been met, and it would contradict the long-standing policy. Not a big deal, and I don’t like appearing this petty, but I’m just trying to communicate in clear language and to give you another data point to help you answer your question!

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@chasesommer.eth

It’s not trust for me, but maybe slightly related? I’m not a dev, so I have to organize and pay devs after taking the time to learn something. But it kinda feels like as soon as I finally grasp something, it gets changed. Maybe developers here feel fatigued more than losing trust?

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i assume the cast is re "wow" channel transfer — technically you did nothing wrong, but clearly stating your intention (beforehand ideally) could've prevented the outcry. i think in general you're doing a great job following the rules (mostly made by you), but they are often unclear to people so repeating them (as part of related comms) is not a bad thing to do.

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Fc/Wp and your team should provide/ pay 1m$ to @df on the Frame thing and his contributions, given it’s < 1% of Fc’s company treasury, and < 0.1% of Fc’s valuation. This $ can be done by Grant + Invest + Dev Credit combined. EF did the original grant to Uniswap, not Paradigm or a16z; EF did the original grant to ENS, not Meme buyers. This is where the trust issue begins, especially for developers. Let’s face it! This is also why lots of VC will not invest in FC ecosystem deals — especially among GPs pitching me as LP, and they probably won’t tell you their honest thoughts Dan. To be fully transparent we provide around 1m$ funding/invest to OpenFrame; half through venture arm half through non profit vehicle. To my knowledge OpenFrame/ @frames haven’t built any specific proposals for Mask or our subsidiary but we’re learning/using some of its design. Hope this direct and honest feedback helps.

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@stevedylandev.eth

I think a key word might be “perception.” Some users or devs perceive changes or how things are done as breaking trust when that may not have been the case or intent. Case in point, the whole channel squatting fiasco. The perception among a lot of users was Warpcast violating something that felt owned by the community, when in reality channels still belong to Warpcast and are not decentralized. Merkle has to make moves to build the network. Additionally, while Merkle had every right, the way it was taken with no messaging to the user has already been acknowledged as bad taste. Another example for me personally was FIP-171. The perception was that devs had some say in how the Farcaster network advances and changes, when in reality Merkle still has the final say. Switching to long casts probably makes more sense than 171, but pushing it through in less than two days made it feel like all the work and thought devs put into it didn’t actually matter. 1/2

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I was excited about FC/WC because I saw it as cutting edge technology that could create a censorship resistant Twitter. Now I'm having trouble seeing the vision. I haven't been censored/banned on Twitter since Elon took over(amazing!!!), and their technology is moving way faster than it used to. It feels like FC/WC is now lagging, and I see time being spent on Pro-censorship stuff (like adding blocking), and I just am not understanding what the long term vision is. Twitter still hasn't gone all in on free-speech (not allowing devs to build on it makes me distrust it; (c) makes me distrust it; etc), but they are headed in that direction. I find the Crypto stuff really cool, but seems like Twitter can/will implement all the best crypto ideas into X. I think community and product here are great, but how is the tech going to surpass Twitter, and not lag it? I could be totally wrong. I don't have a deep understanding of FC/WC metrics. Just one perpspective. P.S. Channel fiasco annoying but understandable

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@meganmichelle.eth

I don’t think you should have answers in your video - I think you should invite users to a zoom round table discussion with you. The async isn’t fruitful - this should be a brainstorming session.

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No idea but if it is related to "things change too often", we hit on this topic a bit in our advice to new people, in our new Farcaster 101 series Clip: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxzReyevVwi8cXquBJ_risNcaFVVFxb0Cs?si=eJzGQgQ3EmGh5TAv "Get comfortable with change"

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I will say next time, send an email to a user if you’re going to take their channel on a “sufficiently decentralised” social app. I don’t blame the team for taking it as channels are a big growth experiment for y’all but you should notify owners of channels you’re taking with the reasons.

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Ganking people’s channels without so much as a warning didn’t affect me, but was a bad look imo. 🤷 And make animated pfp’s great again ffs pls!

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@bay-photography

IMO being part of an early adopter movement warrants pivots and changes given how fast things are moving. I see so many complaining about drastic changes to things like tips, feature rollouts etc. Constructive feedback is key, whining is not it. Go back to regular social if that’s all you gonna do

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I think your vote for trump isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker… But some more transparency, openness to the democratic process, and support of personal freedoms could go a long way. i.e. the opposite of authoritarianism

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It would be great if the algorithm stopped favoring 'whales' so much and focused more on content quality. Content should grow based on its real value, not just because it's posted by someone with a lot of followers. Improving this would make good posts really stand out, no matter who uploads them. That way, everyone wins!

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