I woke up this morning in Tokyo to 2 casts from @dwr.eth regarding future of Farcaster

As a developer building on Farcaster, I found them to be a bit contradictory, unsettling, & overly defeatist.

Farcaster has been building a solid foundation for a strong future. That future is dependent on app... longcast.jam.so/jjcJMh

fwiw I think some of this is asking too much of the Merkle team, specifically 

“Dan, Varun and team should post regularly from Jam and Discove and other FC apps, actively promote them”

“WC team pledge not to introduce any new features that are not available in the protocol”

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs. gregskril.com

but agree with the general sentiment and like a few specific ideas

“FC team support ETH Global hackathons”

“work more closely with 3p apps to make it easier for them to invite and onboard users”

“What will attract developers is other developers having success on the platform, even if small to start”

c/acc - 🏴‍☠️🌊 Bring me that Horizon 🍹
Gold League of Legends player

http://icebreaker.xyz/syed.fc

100% agree - I’m not suggesting fully trustless invites yet. But if a user has an invite, being able to onboard directly to a 3rd party app seems reasonable

I agree with the slower approach to invites tho. Web3 Userbase isn’t mature/large enough and lots of spammy airdrop farmers that would create bigger problems in the long run. A very important problem to solve well and not rush into. Unless other platforms have a novel solution which would be worth sharing for protoco