Warpcast

Farcaster

I often see people Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized".

You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post.

https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks

#opensourcewarpcast

if it's not open source, how can it be decentralized at all?

creator of le /bleu @elefant. 
co-creator of /farcards

destroyer of things.

what's the point of making WC open source? if the assumption is that it would lead to another client gaining significant marketshare I'm sorry to say that the exact opposite would likely happen.

It’s not about cloning Warpcast to make another client (although I am sure that open sourcing WC would lead to TONS of shitty client 😂)

Having example code that is best-in-class solutions to problems one would face while writing for FC protocol is a huge unlock even if you aren’t trying to clone Warpcast.

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Yeah open-sourcing an active code base is a lot of work.  I can understand why they don’t want to open this can of worms.

At the same time there are definitely things in there that would be useful to people building.

yeah I don't disagree, I would guess just not the top of the priority list

for me it would be more about being able to open PR's and fix stuff that really grinds my gears.

Also I think it would easily provide an avenue to just run your own client with those modifications if they dont get upstreamed for reasons

idk, i just think it would be a more open playing field for both builders and users.