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If you're making a Farcaster client, please add the option for users to set the hub address they want.

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As much as this is an ideal, it’s impractical to hope clients will abide by this. This is only evident when you actually try and build a successful client. In a crowded, clients compete for differentiation. You can’t build a differentiated product on commoditized APIs alone.

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From the discussion so far, it seems that direct connection to a hub (or with an installable a backend component) would be an extraordinary feature that differentiates and app from all the rest :-) Something for devs to take into consideration.

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Agreed. In general, we’ve thought hard about frontend only clients on farcaster and it would be amazing to enable that. The protocol just isn’t that complicated today to have a need for that.

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There needs to be a general purpose compute attached tightly to the protocol that will unlock the need for such a dev platform but then again as a product-led protocol, it needs to stem from user demand vs. developer demand.

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BTW, let's consider Gmail, which is a beloved example in here. I don't remember any user asking for AJAX and javascript-based apps in 2004. You clicked a link, the browser loaded a page. If you wanted an app-like experience, you wrote java applets of flash. Dev demand is also a powerful force.

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But it tapped a basic user for a faster user experience. Am I understanding that correctly?

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At the end of the day, 99% of people don’t care about decentralization or how things are built. They care about the value prop. It’s up to developers to balance user needs & engineering elegance. Tilt in either direction too much & we’d be building something no one uses or something that’s not web3 principles

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For the record. I was the young engineer everyone liked to tease about "this free software thing" and "Linux" was their joke, in the mid-late 90s. They knew what people and the market needed. Most of them could not live without OSS today, even if they're not aware of it. I don't want to be them.

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I don't like speaking on behalf of "99% of the people". I know what I want and need and I ask for it. If other want to build it, great. If I can build it myself, even better.

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