Federated is worse developer experience and will become oligopoly over time (see email)

Tbh I’m so confused why the email example is used as an argument AGAINST federation

The way I understand it email is arguably one of the most sufficiently decentralised parts of the internet today

Sure most people use Gmail or outlook but it’s not even hard to use something else or even self host without any noticeable difference to anyone else (and plenty of people do!)

If farcaster becomes anything like email it will be wildly successful at its goal of being sufficiently decentralised

Worse developer experience is also debatable because I predict apps will index subsets of the network anyway as it grows too large to index in its entirety. Already saw this happening in some cases with power badge

Tbh I’m so confused why the email example is used as an argument AGAINST federation

The way I understand it email is arguably one of the most sufficiently decentralised parts of the internet today

Sure most people use Gmail or outlook but it’s not even hard to use something else or even self host without any noticeable difference to anyone else (and plenty of people do!)

If farcaster becomes anything like email it will be wildly successful at its goal of being sufficiently decentralised

Worse developer experience is also debatable because I predict apps will index subsets of the network anyway as it grows too large to index in its entirety. Already saw this happening in some cases with power badge 

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Have tried spinning up a new email server or domain recently?

Email configuration with something like postfix is easy enough as it’s well documented and I’m sure there are a variety of docker instances that can do it fine. It’s just all the permission bullshit that comes along with it which is difficult to get trusted because of spam. 🥲