matthewb.eth
@matthewb
would love to see some mainstream media coverage that acknowledges blockchain as the solution that enables portable social graphs lots of people care about this problem (“I’ll lose all my followers if I leave [platform]!”) but maybe aren’t aware of how to solve for it.
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boscolo.eth
@boscolo.eth
Don't mean to be a contrarian, but in Farcaster the portable social graph does not use a blockchain (in the Ethereum sense of the word), only your farcaster identity (FID) uses a blockchain. Bluesky also has a portable follow graph and decentralized ID that does not use a blockchain.
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matthewb.eth
@matthewb
yes good clarification, personally I see the onchain FID as necessary for this vision. portable social graph is one aspect, account that you actually own and can’t be rugged is another.
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boscolo.eth
@boscolo.eth
💯 The onchain FID is critical for self-control of social identity. There is one major problem with BSky's DID, you can censor updates to the DID. Updates to the Farcaster FIDs are - practically speaking -censorship resistant.* * Worth noting that in the current state they aren't technically censorship resistant because MM still controls the smart contract that allows them to be updated.
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