Dan Romero on Warpcast

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AMA about Farcaster—why we made a decision, something that's confusing, strategy, product, etc.

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Why shouldn’t devs be terrified that any useful/highly utilized cast composer action will just get coopted and released by the Merkle Team once utility is proven?

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because we opted to build composer actions in the first place as opposed to doing native polls?

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Obv I’m stoked to be here, but a more cynical person might observe that composer actions are a really clever way to offload exploratory dev work to external parties and survey what makes sense to seriously lean into Sorta like the Amazon Basics of social tooling

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Sure. But you could take that line of thinking and say we've built the protocol as a psyop to get peopel to use Warpcast and then we rug the protocol. 3+ years on delivering on our promises / being transparent?

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Totally! The nuance I guess is it’s not obvious the protocol is directly monetizable for y’all so Warpcast HAS to make money afaict so Farcaster existing could feel like just a positive externality of WC winning “3+ years of doing what you said” is my go to “trust the FC process” defense actually haha

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Hypothesis is composer actions benefit both Farcaster and Warpcast because they help increase supply of interesting and entertaining content (frames generated by actions are interactive content)

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I hope so - it’s a sorely needed social primitive Any thoughts on cast actions getting a simple “multiple choice” version btw? I have a “curation” focused seemore page vision where people basically collect posts like bookmarks to showcase their taste, but I’m constrained by single purpose cast actions rn

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not sure I understand cc @horsefacts.eth

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Here's my old cast about it So instead of each cast action being a single purpose trigger, every cast action turns into a cast action set with a handful of choices: In my case it'd let Curators filter into a few categories at point of curation vs filtering it later This way, if I have a Seemore Curation Page with "Founder Stuff", "Creator Stuff", and "Self Stuff" I could add directly to the appropriate content cluster (fwiw I'd curate this thread into "Founder Stuff" 🫡) https://warpcast.com/cameron/0x9b64e61f

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I casted a visual about this a few months ago let me dig it up

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