Farcaster protocol strengths right now

- Engaged, constructive, fun community of people—many of whom are building on the protocol; also: Purple

- Hubs almost 100% permissionless; access to full data, APIs and global state of protocol in a single piece of software

- Positioned to be highly composable with Ethereum

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

What we are doing to fix

- Getting Hubs to 100% permissionless, improving developer experience (docs, make Hubs a bit easier to work with)

- Automatically migrate all active users to mainnet later this year

- Come up with a v1 spam / squatting solutions to pull permissionless sign ups forward

For Warpcast: be the best social network for people building on Ethereum / EVM.

Investing more in onchain features based on what our most active users are already doing today (revealed preference!).

Note: that will likely mean people less interested in Ethereum will find Farcaster less interesting in the near-term.

Weaknesses

- Not on mainnet, registrations so far haven't had real cost

- Sign ups are not permissionless, reliance on Warpcast for onboarding

- Feels too skeuomorphic to Twitter

- As a result, DAU growth rate is not attractive for most developers

Easier to read version:

https://warpcast.com/dwr/0x622793