I’m one of the 5-15 and this stresses me out. 

People might not care now, but nobody knows how valuable a fully archived Farcaster will be.  Undoubtedly very valuable and possibly most to people who aren’t thinking of it. 

I’m pretty much in this space for watching history unfold.

If having global state on a single server is important, you get to choose two:

1. Long term storage
2. Censorship resistant
3. Cheap

I think Arweave could serve all 3 tho. "Cheap" might be subjective to the user however.

> If having global state on a single server is important

This is an important design decision. Building your own indexing as a prerequisite is not a good dev ex