I often see people Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized".

You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post.

https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks

#opensourcewarpcast

if it's not open source, how can it be decentralized at all?

frames, frames, frames

/bleu bleuonbase.twitter

Hubs are open source. Access to the protocol is the important thing for developers.

There are many things that are not open-source.

How can I check the code for 24h boost people?

How can I check the code for the $5 reward program for the top 100?

I care. maybe not to the rest.

I am interested in knowing how the experiments work in terms of code. What reasons why they are not open-source?

> even if the power badges went silently away from the frontend, they never went away from the backend logic.

This is FUD. We removed power badges. Unmoderated channel feeds are now an algorithmic sorting. If you turn on moderation, all casts appear.

We've shifted from power badge to spam labeling.

Priority mode/spam label/slim frames/show more matter too, many people i know feel silenced for not being -activeonFcNetwork- true and such not enjoying all those perks.

even if the power badges went silently away from the frontend, they never went away from the backend logic. is that the plan long term? or not? Just wondering here.

LOL?
Because Warpcast takes a lot of centralized decisions that affect most farcaster users, without people knowing anything, that's not sufficiently decentralized that's totally centralized.