Farcaster solves the fundamental problem with the Fediverse. It uses the blockchain for global, tamper-resistant state.

That was the issue that bedeviled Mastodon. Servers could fake everything, even user counts. They had no mechanism for decentralized consensus.

Farcaster solves the fundamental problem with the Fediverse. It uses the blockchain for global, tamper-resistant state.

That was the issue that bedeviled Mastodon. Servers could fake everything, even user counts. They had no mechanism for decentralized consensus.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1154461575656308737

One important point that wasn’t mentioned in that X thread is that global consensus is critical on a social model because the entire revenue system uses those stats to operate

One important point that wasn’t mentioned in that X thread is that global consensus is critical on a social model because the entire revenue system uses those stats to operate 

https://x.com/manuelmaccou/status/1805197849681969614?s=46&t=nKz19xkjBExbNJhnxDcuqQ