is it possible to build a farcaster hub that only maintains a subset of the network state? if so, is it possible to avoid having a distinction between “clients” and “hubs”?

prefigurative politics means building privacy, not just critiquing surveillance

sharding state affects availability of data by making sync harder and making it easier to censor people you don't like. 

we're actively designing hubs to ignore peers that don't relay the entire state of the network

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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i don’t agree, i think this is only true without an end-to-end conception of the protocol design that excludes the devices people actually use from consideration… thereby forcing users to rely on hubs and making censorship easier in the long run

(blanket disclaimer that, like, it’s your protocol, not mine, so feel free to discount my bystander opinions to whatever extent you want)

yeah, it is a difficult design problem to be sure, but it seems worth aiming for if possible. i want to spend more time understanding the current design before making a concrete suggestion

i'm open to changing my mind if you have a proposal for how to make sharding work while protecting users against eclipse attacks and keeping sync performant