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Could you plz say more about the downsides of integrating xmtp for DCs?

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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I like the XMTP folks and their mission, but right now who do you want to talk to that is active on XMTP?

If we spent time ripping out DCs and integrating XMTP right now, we'd have: 
- Weaker encryption 
- More systemic complexity for clients 
- No material improvement for our users

don’t do it. i don’t want XMTP spam in my farcaster DCs

ensdata.net ✦ pugson.net/rfe ✦ metadata.vision ✦ 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚅: @rainbow 🌈 ✦ 𝙽𝙾𝚆: 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙾𝙽 ???

Solving for spam in the Farcaster context would be straightforward for most cases, such as how some Lens clients filtered based on follows.

That along with protocol-level countermeasures would make for a great experience + enable interop.

Co-founder XMTP, building web3's secure messaging layer ➡️ https://xmtp.org

Yep! Loads of possibility at the front end. Plus lots of tooling for spam already available, like this one:

Yep! Loads of possibility at the front end. Plus lots of tooling for spam already available, like this one: https://docs.airstack.xyz/airstack-docs-and-faqs/guides/xmtp/spam-filters