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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Carlos Matallín
@matallo.eth
On a related note, I’ve been reading about Nostr as an example of a simple protocol for decentralized social media that hasn’t been widely discussed. It doesn’t rely on an onchain identity system or necessarily use crypto for consensus. However, if the goal is to build a permissionless decentralized system, I think it deserves some attention. I do agree that users often gravitate towards Warpcast as their main client or towards centralized replicator services as developers. What makes Farcaster unique is sufficient decentralization plus the incentives that attract Ethereum aligned users to transact.
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Stephan
@stephancill
I like nostr’s approach but imo it’s on the other side of the spectrum where it’s too barebones and that makes it cumbersome to build on Bluesky is on the opposite end where it’s overly complicated, but I like their approach to federation at a high level Farcaster sits somewhere in the middle for me but hard to see it scale while maintaining decentralisation of hubs
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