Fryorcraken on Warpcast

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Jason Goldberg Ⓜ️ 💜

With coinbase and lens rolling out @xmtp messaging, it would be really amazing for @farcaster to embrace as well — unification of ethereum! Message anyone from/to ENS <> CB.ID <> Farcaster <> Lens <> 0x <> ENS <> CB.ID <> Farcaster <> Lens <> 0x

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We’d love to. More wallets to come. Be great to have this community as part of the network and working with us on security and roadmap. Doors been open…

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Varun Srinivasan

We're big fans of using open protocols too, but the concern was the way encryption was being done (fixed encryption key from ecdsa sig). It was easy to trick someone into signing a wallet message which would decrypt their entire history. I know y'all were working on improving the system, has that changed since?

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tbh, considering the potential scale Farcaster and Lens have, for maximum flexibility, seems they could operate at the same level as xmtp by using Waku directly, defining tailor made protobuf on top. https://twitter.com/oskarth/status/1679333922596077569

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Daniel Fernandes

I'm slowly working on a Farcaster Hubble integration with Waku...no timeline but 👀

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@fryorcraken.eth

What kind of integration? Do I remember correctly that @farcaster allows user to select the location for their messages to be stored? Such location could be Waku. Is that the integrated you're looking at?

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My guess, as far as FC is concerned, is no. FC already has hubs for storing messages. That trajectory is already set, sort of, in stone. Although perhaps the storage is interchangeable in the protocol by clients other than warpcast. The issue being discussed seems to be about DMs, or in FC speak Direct Casts.

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@fryorcraken.eth

Yeah just read the specs, hubs use gossipsub and there is a sync process too. Not sure I understand if a mobile app like Warpcast runs a hub or connects to a specific hub via a non-spec protocol.

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@fryorcraken.eth

Is @warpcast open source?

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@fryorcraken.eth

For DM, yes it would make sense to build directly on top of Waku, especially that effort has been spent defining an encryption protocol that makes sense for farcaster.

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@fryorcraken.eth

For farcaster in general, I think it would make sense to use waku because farcaster uses gossipsub as backbone. The issue in using gossipsub on mobile is that it's likely to kill the data plan. Especially that all message seem to be on one pubsub topic.

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@fryorcraken.eth

I am guessing @warpcast connects to a hosted hub via wss. Which means that now all warpcast users to through warpcast infra, loosing privacy. Using waku could enable a more decentralized topology for Mobile clients. It's also a path to greater scalability for the hubs in generally by using Waku's sharding.

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@v do farcaster mobile clients run gossipsub? Or devs need to host hub and provide own API?

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