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I think Lens Protocol would be infinitely more successful if it embraced the Tumblr microblogging use case instead of the Twitter-like broadcast feed use case.

The protocol already supports many different media types (video, image, audio, article, text, etc.), it should embrace this versatility for that purpose.

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Building /warpcast and /farcaster

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You can use CharmVerse with Lens profiles.

I tried Buttrfly for a bit but I use Lens so rarely that I hate having to go through the sign in flow again. I hate how Lens API handles auth. Don't want to have to sign messages every time I use a client, especially on mobile since wallets tend to fail on me a lot.

Agreed. Lens' strength is media and built in collects/mints, which is what I'm focusing on with the client I'm building. Buttrfly has image/video/audio dedicated tabs for all feeds (following, explore, profile)

NFA. Farcaster OG. Dev/Artist. Exhibited Internationally.

/daily-art-mint
/daily-fan-token
/scanography
/cyanotype

Agree. It's impressive how many bots they managed to get with permissioned signups.
I guess since profiles are NFTs some people sold them. 🤷

A big issue for me there is that it seems to be completely overrun by bots.

Currently building Co:Create. Talking about product & new web3 tech

Most clients are built on top of Lens APIs which follow the twitter like pattern so most clients follow that pattern as well.

Agree it's not about the protocol but about the APIs and the clients.

Wouldn’t that be up to the builders of the clients, not the protocol? What do you think the protocol needs to adjust to embrace this use case?

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I haven't used it in a while...
I was mostly just trying it out but never found a good set of accounts to follow and I always found the experience too clunky.

MM did a great job in focusing on a familiar and smooth experience early. Lens didn't really think much about the experience and it shows.

Do you use Lens as well? What’s it like relative to Farcaster?