Laurent Houdard
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The Farcaster protocol does very little today in the way of solving conflicts or UX problems around multiple competing clients; which, one might expect, is the hard & important thing to solve in a social protocol.
Farcaster is being controlled & governed by the 99% client (Warpcast), repeatedly making choices that limit the ability of alternate clients to build and compete (See SIWF, Messaging, Channels).
As a builder, it's unclear why Farcaster is not any different from early Twitter, which was open, had alt clients, but one overwhelmingly dominant client. Once Twitter became big enough, it shifted from attracting to extracting, and shut down their API, becoming the Twitter of today, ruled by a benevolent dictator. Is Farcaster/Warpcast just running back the Twitter playbook?
Why should we users and builders trust Warpcast's continued benevolence, when their short term choices are already showing a willingness to compromise on the Protocol part in the name of monoclient growth? 13 replies
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#monochrome-monday #mono
Bonjour tristesse, winter is coming (in the northern hemisphere). Time to relieve our eyes and minds from the strains of processing an abundance of color. Dullness, fog, rain, snow, a night that never ends – the outside world painted in a palette of whites, greys and blacks. Such a perfect fit for a Monday, everyone's favorite day of the week.
Share monochrome (aka b/w) artworks under the #mono or #monochrome-monday tag – your work or the work of others, adding the artist's name and ideally, why you love the work. Reply to this cast or create your own. Pure celebration of an attitude. No incentives, no obligations, no limits – besides #000 and #fff.
Only on Mondays, in a new art channel each week, starting with /gen-art
Brought to you by @dennis-chilas and @vortac 🖤 25 replies
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