Frames are great but it’s sad they’re used for so much to get around how limited farcaster protocol is

Blockchain developer, scraping and smart contracts.

Sure. So Farcaster has only a few social media primitives like Post, Favorite, Repeat, React. If you want to do any more than that you end up coding that into a frame.

In the alternative standard ActivityPub you can just define a new vocabulary and start using it and clients can choose to implement support for it.

The difference is that with AcitivityPub the data is directly in the social graph and usable for any purpose and you can add new vocabs infinitely.

Frames silo that data away from the social graph, making it unusable and proprietary.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods, frames dev faster and look flashy, vocabs take coordination and more implementation work.

Both are good. I like frames. But I wish farcaster was flexible like activitypub for in-graph data.