im pretty bearish on ENS long-term

imo any sufficiently popular cryptosocial product will generate native demand for their own namespace, and be able to charge rent for identities. it'll be more profitable than co-opting ENS

the only truly canonical, interoperable identity is an ethereum address

Only way i could see namespace staying as a building block is if they charged a market rate tax % for the namespace and paid clients/apps (like Farcaster) to use ENS instead of making their own namespace

It ends up as: users paying clients/apps to keep using the name they already acquired instead of fragmenting

Values-Aligned Communities | citizen of Black Rock City

maybe... I could imagine this costing a lot to ENS, especially if you have a single social protocol that becomes massive

kinda like how google pays apple a TON ($8-12B/yr) for being default search on iOS

but the difference is that it's much easier to build your own namespace than a search engine

I could imagine a world where you get the best of both worlds. Farcaster names could be: [NAME].farcaster.eth

I could own bocolo.farcaster.eth and use it the same way I use boscolo.eth and FC could collect the rent for these subdomains.

My FC name is going to be contextualized to FC in the minds of others either way.