Farcaster

If you're making a Farcaster client, please add the option for users to set the hub address they want.

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Hmm most apps read from a database that indexes a hub so this would make it pretty difficult to assemble any sort of feed (home, channels, notifications, etc)

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There’s a semi-standard database schema in the sense that there’s only 1 open source hub → postres indexer afaik and many people use it

There’s no API standard built on the database, but Warpcast and Neynar are similar so it’d be nice to have an open source repo that exposes similar endpoints from the db

It does not make me happy, but 
1. it's good for users and devs to know the limitations of each app design. 
2. Is there a standard API used?
3. I'd be willing to build a "plugin" that runs next to a hub and exposes #2, or (maybe) we could ask @neynar to provide something like this for their API.

here's how we solved it at ketl.xyz (sorry, wisdom unavailable to ssr devs)

anyone can set their eth rpc and ipfs nodes

anyone can also start any small piece of centralized infra (e.g., push notifications server or view counter) and mix and match

indexer would be a smallocroservice people can start themselves

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what happens when somebody sets a custom eth rpc? seems like it would take a long time to re-index the contract(s) and pull data from IPFS