I woke up this morning in Tokyo to 2 casts from @dwr.eth regarding future of Farcaster

As a developer building on Farcaster, I found them to be a bit contradictory, unsettling, & overly defeatist.

Farcaster has been building a solid foundation for a strong future. That future is dependent on app... longcast.jam.so/jjcJMh

Two cents of a client-builder (Phrasetown): barebones client aren't differentiated enough to win. A future I can see happening: "Twitter clones" are as undifferentiated as podcasting clients, because they all consume the same data. Warpcast is positioned to win the Twitter-clone category because "official client."

agree. and the huge value of FC is that the client has such a wide-open possibility space, so there can be many clients that occupy distinct forms and can coexist but take separate pieces of the whole pie

imo arbitrary embeds is a huge innovation that could be the big differentiator for FC apps

Yeah, the best FC app to build now is the non-obvious and fun. Hard to find that because... non-obvious...

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Seems to me like the protocol team’s core focus is absolutely enabling this openness: permissionless hubs, open APIs, acknowledgement and promotion when someone launches a new client. There are quite a few clients that are super differentiated on FC already too

I'm curious as to why this hasn't been the case and not the core focus of protocol team (I know the standard response is "not on mainnet yet").
On nostr there's numerous Twitter clones, blog hosting, video, radio apps, even an app to share/comment on beats and mixes for recording artists.