Stephan
@stephancill
Tbh I’m so confused why the email example is used as an argument AGAINST federation The way I understand it email is arguably one of the most sufficiently decentralised parts of the internet today Sure most people use Gmail or outlook but it’s not even hard to use something else or even self host without any noticeable difference to anyone else (and plenty of people do!) If farcaster becomes anything like email it will be wildly successful at its goal of being sufficiently decentralised Worse developer experience is also debatable because I predict apps will index subsets of the network anyway as it grows too large to index in its entirety. Already saw this happening in some cases with power badge https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x0c0f2718
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Stephan
@stephancill
I’ve also been a fan of AT protocol since they released their initial authenticated data prototype a couple of years ago I think the way they are going about building their network is smart but often overcomplicated and could greatly benefit from blockchain components - something farcaster innovated on and gets right
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makemake
@makemake
keep in mind AT is not really federated as its designed around a central server. AP is actually federated social media
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Stephan
@stephancill
but as far as i know you can self-host a data repository that feeds into "the firehose" that gets indexed by apps? by federation i'm actually referring to the personal data repository model
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