If A) centralized social networks charge advertisers for a slice of the attention users give to see content via their integrated client B) what is the natural economic model for a decentralized network where the protocol is enjoyed by many clients who independently compete/cooperate?

CTO @a16zcrypto, lover of https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

On the client side: may the best frontends win

On the protocol side: base usage fee per user, likely abstracted by the winning clients

Worth paying the protocol fee as the client so you benefit from other winning clients, and fair competition to become the winning client because they all have access to the same data