Farcaster

Why are there so many developers on Farcaster? Why not build on 1000x larger Twitter?

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

I’m not understanding the ownership point here 

@dwr.eth is still the bdfl, users don’t have any governance votes

ie if your product depended on the old way channels work, what say did you have that is different than what say you would have at Twitter?

They can bury me deep, but I always grow back.

The old channels weren’t in the protocol.

yes my b, but for the sake of argument if they had been, it’s ultimately your / merkle’s decision right?

Protocol is rough consensus and working code. Emphasis on working code part.

Ownership also means you can PR into the Hub repo or make government proposals

Location in protocol wasn’t a Merkle idea to execute rn for example

Solana verifications was a community proposal

Long casts started with long user discussions  on Farcaster and GitHub

what you're describing is a process for contributors/contributions, not ownership

until FC has W3C or optimism-like community governance ie is still under the BDFL model this is still rented ground albeit far better rented ground than the alternatives

ownership of a protocol or standards is having an active part in its governance, see IEEE or W3C

no one has that here, when @warpcastadmin.eth talks about so many things built in the past being broken because of protocol changes that's a symptom of no community governance

how do you define ownership?

do you own the optimism sequencer? that will control all the transactions and confirm them?