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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
"But if most people use Warpcast, doesn't that mean it's de facto centralized?" Depends on the perspective. For a developer, if you are building on the protocol, then you're free to sign up your own users or convince users to move over to your app (it's easy for users to use multiple clients at the same time). For an account with an audience, let's say you were unfairly nerfed by Warpcast, i.e. you don't appear on the app. There's definitely a lot of friction to get people to start using another client if they already don't, but the protocol itself is not restricting your ability to communicate. That's an important distinction because on web2 / centralized social networks, the app and the "protocol" (i.e. the database) is the same thing.
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Joshua Hyde
@jrh3k5.eth
RE: users moving to another app: is there a way to "sign in with Farcaster" that doesn't have a Warpcast dependency? That's something I keep mentally snagging on - can a user banned on Warpcast use an alternative client as long as logging into that client requires Warpcast? (I also can't use Supercast because of that dependency)
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Dan Romero
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You can create an account on Supercast without Warpcast. We will have Sign in with Farcaster without Warpcast at some point. But not a top priority for any ecosystem dev yet.
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