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

There needs to be a testnet for Farcaster, like Kusama for Polkadot, where the protocol is not invite-only and developers can experiment with protocol features like follow graphs, fname pricing, and more.

The guard rails are let loose and good ideas are merged into FC.

Fun fact, the Kusama "testnet" is worth $300M.

Building far.quest & wield.xyz, angel investing @ miy.com // Previously Meta, Coinbase // cryptojcdenton.twitter // FID #251

That’s what I find fascinating about Kusama. The social mechanism and communication patterns for experimentation are different than for things that should work/be stable/ improve incrementally.

OK this is maybe a bit crazy but I‘d be happy to be that testnet with Kiwi News. FC and Kiwi have a very similar algo and I‘d be happy to welcome shenanigans. I guess the lessons from Kiwi can be applied to FC then