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Creator of farcaster-py.
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web workers + pglite for local-first data apps

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs. gregskril.com

Wish we saw more of these apps, but sadly the incentives arent there for app developers, and you lose out on some of the benefits of shared global state.

May I sell you a blockchain, sir?

lol i mean for apps that need indexed blockchain data!

think along the lines of rotki or a basic farcaster client that indexes data directly from a hub

But wouldn't users be recreating that indexing work themselves everytime (and thus paying RPC credits), instead of it only having to be done once, if the app dev has a ponder backend, for example?

Open source frontend + the graph might be the most practical way to solve this without sacrificing purity.

If the frontend starts to misbehave or is headed in a direction people do not like, anyone can fork and run it themselves / for others.

But putting a WASM ponder instance in the browser sounds like a nerdsnipe for sure cc @typedarray.eth

yes its definitely not the most efficient but cool for the sake of purity lol

even just as a proof of concept, i think its worth having maximally decentralized ways to access open protocols