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Alex Garcia
@alexgarcia
Onchain Social isn’t about replacing platforms like X. It’s about building something that in principle can’t exist on X. What’s one thing Farcaster can enable that no Web2 platform ever could? I'd say one thing Farcaster enables is composability, something no Web2 platform can replicate. Apps and protocols building on top of your profile, content, and interactions, rather than locking them in. Your followers, posts, and reputation move with you, instead of being trapped in a walled garden. Real-World Example: 1. Warpcast (X-like) – You build your audience here. 2. New App Launches (e.g., Farcaster TikTok) – It instantly recognises your profile, followers, and reputation. You don’t need to rebuild from zero. 3. Developers Build Cool Features – "Top Farcaster creators", let you monetise all content, using the same base identity and data. This wouldn’t be possible on X, because they own your data. Farcaster flips that, you own your network, and apps compete to serve you better.
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
Bluesky/ATproto also shares these abilities, but the builder community is quite young and there’s not a ton of stuff out there. There is an IG-like image app in beta, for example. Which is to say that web2 is perfectly capable of composability, it’s just X and Meta et al choose not to allow it for the sake of their business model. Web3 is unnecessary for the technical part of that. What web3 brings mostly is financial transactions and other things that can be built on tokens (membership, reputation, etc).
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Moon
@moon.eth
If you use the default identity server on BlueSky you don't own your identity, a corporation does. There are ways to avoid that though. Incidentally the Fediverse already has completely open and interoperable reimplementations of X, Reddit, forums, Instagram and Tiktok.
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