"Farcaster is not like the web because it's built by a company"

You're free to clone the smart contracts (public, on OP Mainnet) and fork Hubs and point them at your new canonical smart contracts.

That's the easy part. The hard part is convincing everyone to switch to your version of Farcaster.

It's just people.

1. I agree.
2. How defendable is this moat? If ms, meta or goog tried to attack it (by cloning the protocol, with a few changes and few hundred million users), what is our line of defense? Are centralized features (ex: DMs, Channels) in favor or against us in this scenario?
(I'd love to hear your thoughts, Dan)

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2. The current network costs $3 per user. So if a big company wants to inject that into the protocol, great. 

Otherwise, they probably would t need to fork our code. They would just build something new.