Dan Romero on Warpcast

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Looking for feedback — the recent appearance on Bankless really seemed to resonate with people (got a lot of inbound)! 1. Was there a particular section that resonated with you? (Want to double down on repeating that messaging.) 2. What was unclear / confusing / not well articulated? YouTube timestamps appreciated

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(Can be also on other podcasts / recent screenshot essays about Farcaster / Merkle strategy / etc.)

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zico pfp

I liked that you mention not everything in web2 is broken + 1 for talking about sufficient decentralization would have been cool if you talked about monetizing it (not for you & @v but for the user base), even if no plans to ever do so I like that you're the least hype person in crypto building a social network 😎

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Just got to watching. 1. Clients bringing value aside from (and abstracting) the protocol. The example with Absorb around 51:20 being able to offer functionality and success independent of FC while running its rails clearly shows the scaleability and modularity potential.

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Great insights Dan! I found it very interesting the part on monetization and business model (Google paying Apple to show Google seerch bar as default), but I think you could expand more on the premium accounts,i didn't understand how they will be different from normal free accounts. Cheers!

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Somewhat unrelated but charging for namespace becomes a fascinating area. Fnames become the .com equivalent and a name space can develop similar to tlds, where a .tk domain is regarded as spam although it’s free.

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Coming from working with another web3 social protocol I thought you highlighted the killer features well (driving switching costs to zero and forcing apps to compete on features/UX not who builds the best moat) Unanswered question for me is will developers be discouraged by the ability to lose a user base so quickly?

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15:44: when you mentioned the history that Twitter and Facebook were more “open” towards 3rd-party developers building on top of these platforms. It would really help someone who didn’t know this history to see the fundamental differences between Web2 and Web3 social networks.

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I am skeptical about the stated plan to get to 1b users while charging them $10/year in ETH to be in the namespace Seems more reasonable to me to charge B2B to run clients that access the namespace once we get to critical mass of users but hey, skeptics are important!

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Great episode! The Twitter discussion did not mention that the threat that got Twitter to close down was that someone would buy the most popular clients and replace the backend Is that a risk you see with Farcaster as well?

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@currentoor.eth

The bit about web protocols lacking native financing at the protocol level.

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Nothing for #2 but the part(s) about owning your audience and having truly permissionless building made me extremely hopeful for the future If you’re building a client on twitter, 100% of your revenue could be gone overnight by then shutting off your access, so you accept that risk With FC you don’t have that ris

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Ashira 🎩🫂🍖🍔💃🏼

I just started listening to it this afternoon & haven’t finished yet but it’s fantastic. I’ll listen to the rest w an ear for time stamps.

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The idea of owning my relationship with followers, fans, friends… having millions of subscribers across social yet at the mercy of each platform for reach had me 😩. So I’m excited to create with Farcaster 🥳

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Web2 not broken Protocol vs. app, farcaster vs Merkle manufactory What’s on chain vs off chain Why protocols should think about monetization and your ideas (hypotheses/guesses-love your humility) Long termism

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For me the biggest gap is the delineation between client and protocol. I realize it's not the sexiest topic but more info on how developers could utilize the protocol or even high level info on what it offers would be great.

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1. Using existing FC user base to kick start new client user base 2. The dev/user flywheel: more devs more users more devs etc (might have been between the lines don’t recall details) 3. In general the UX/product focus

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1. -Good balance betw showing you’re aligned w/ core tenets that Bankless likes to champion while also showing nuance (~“you have to take me on my word that we will decentralize…”) -Bankless audience seems newer to crypto (myself included) & loves hearing crypto OG wisdom / industry patterns 2. More on what h

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Sriram Krishnan

the bit on sovereign ownership of your username (as opposed to Mastodon) was extremely powerful.

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✅ Bankless helped you reach a new audience ✅ Your tone was more humble and earnest vs a lot of typical messaging in the space of web2 is shit and web3 is the panacea ✅ Clear that FC team values product and understands how hard it is to build audience / community, —> not just build a protocol and magic will

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