jcdenton.cast
@jc
Announcing the first Farcaster L2: Cast! After working 6 years on Meta infra for 3 billion users, I knew Farcaster proliferation had to be cheaper - we built it. Cast today has ~500,000 messages external to Farcaster, with ~30,000 .cast handles, only costing $0.39/year on OP!
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David Furlong
@df
I love that this enables more experimentation via Cast's different protocol approach and flexible messages and I think that's net good, but I'm also struggling to see the symbiosis of this as an L2 rather than a Farcaster fork that has a name and logo that is so similar that new people will inevitably confuse the two
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David Furlong
@df
Would love to better understand the funnel of L2 -> L1 or how the network effects are shared, a blog post would help me a lot. Would also love to play around with new message types
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David Furlong
@df
I definitely agree that Farcaster's upfront registration cost limit its proliferation and add a lot of friction to onboarding new users
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jcdenton.cast
@jc
Hey @df, I would try Cast to get a better idea, forks don’t still sync data of what it forked! Here’s a thought, if you go to your post, the only way someone new can like your post is to pay $7-12, or 39 cents with Cast (or if FIDs are free, $0): https://far.quest/df/0xf362430d03183315ccf9a86fe508a93b1fd23fc9
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David Furlong
@df
thanks, trying to understand, have tried it! L2s usually dont sync the L1 data either so its sort of uncharted territory. Fork might not be the right word - this is more like a supernetwork (a network with an L1 within it)
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jcdenton.cast
@jc
It's uncharted and we want users to understand immediately! On September's launch we described Cast as "inspired by L2s", and the vast majority understood that analogy, which is why we are much more comfortable today calling it an L2. I also replied to Ben here on this topic: https://warpcast.com/jc/0x8fc36cdf
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