*deep breath*

Merkle Manufactory is a private, VC funded startup 

They are building:
Farcaster - the protocol
Warpcast - the client

Farcaster is like email - a permissionless technical standard that any machine can post to/read from

Warpcast is like gmail - an opinionated app used to access Farcaster protocol data

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Except the companies and individuals running the email servers host all the emails sent and received by everyone. It’s a good analogy, but I think technically it’s not the most accurate. However, it helps convey the idea.

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Actually coming back to this - this is how hubs work no?

Yes, but for email, servers only host the emails of sender <> receiver. There might be other details, but I think this is a major difference