Farcaster

The value of an FID is in the social graph—both stated (following) and revealed (activity). Profile is secondary.

There is minimal (no?) value in the onchain primitive absent the above.

This is why digital identity is always emergent from apps with utility.

If you spend a lot of time using an app / platform / OS, it starts to become your identity.

Building an identity layer is the wrong order of operations. You earn the right to be an identity layer by time spent, usage, people building on it, etc.

Seems like a strong case for why no other client could ever hope to compete with Warpcast in the long run.

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The Farcaster identity lives outside of Warpcast.

It's more nuanced here, since the identity on Farcaster is not tightly coupled to the client / server (contrast to email). It lives at the network live, like a phone number.

True, but by your reasoning the value of it is retained in the Warpcast application via time spent, usage, people building on it, etc.