On storage

- Don't overthink it since casts you like or reply will likely be pruned at some point

- Farcaster's explicit goal is *real-time* global state.

- I fully expect people to offer paid (or free with ads) archiving services, a Wayback Machine type thing, etc.

I love this feature as someone concerned about privacy and reducing my digital footprint.

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Yes! More things should be ephemeral.

I also think people overrate old tweets, casts, etc. and underrate the liability they present.

Agree. People want to have access to all data but then don’t know what to do with it.