A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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Decentralizing infrastructure with Kleomedes.

Building collaboration with Nearchos.

Funding Public Goods with Octant 

What does owning your data look like then? Files on my computer?

Owning my data means I can search the Internet and choose my recommendations without my behavioral telemetry choosing them for me.

Owning my data means I can syndicate the content of family, friends and mentors without my ad cookie cache, the speed I scroll the page, my geographic region and my age being weaponized to maximize my click-through-rate, session starts and session duration.

Owning my data means I live in a world where my devices and my platforms are use-agnostic— where they value me abandoning my screen to go hike a mountain the same as gluing my eyeballs to one.

Owning my data means I decide the machine the metrics of my life get assembled into. I am not the unwitting, unpaid Transformer in an oligopolist’s dystopian comic franchise— required to submit to assembly into the latest AI-CRM-KPI monstrosity from my cradle to my grave.

That’s what owning my data looks like.

Chocolate rainmaker. Singer. Thinker. Voice

I don’t get the last point. The data is equally available to everyone, you can’t stop which machine it gets assembled into — unless we personally own a system by which *all* our data is encrypted.