A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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I wrote a bit about Farcasters consensus model, and the specific tradeoffs we had to navigate. 

Planning on sharing more broadly tomorrow, any feedback is appreciated!

I wrote a bit about Farcasters consensus model, and the specific tradeoffs we had to navigate. 

Planning on sharing more broadly tomorrow, any feedback is appreciated!

https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2024/04/28/the-goldilocks-consensus-problem

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

4. Reliance on sync mechanism to find missing deltas at some point will hit a ceiling as the number of nodes continues to increase. Will you ever limit the number of writable nodes?

Yes, exactly I believe industry standards is something like after 90 days - use case is very different and more analytical. Although people do still reply and react to older casts. I think Reddit has some freezing and archival mechanism something like 6 months

The problem is mostly due to the graph size which keeps growing.

I think the best solution will be freezing parts of the graph like older data to prevent changes, which will reduce the space you need search for missing deltas.