Farcaster

Warpcast *is* the app. 

There aren’t going to be lots of popular interfaces. 

Power laws still apply. 

All the important engagement mechanics happen in the UI.

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The permissionless Farcaster API will be useful for specialized applications, but there won’t be more than a handful of relevant general purpose frontends and Warpcast will be the biggest.

There is no “client opportunity” because (in 99.9% of cases) ain’t nobody building a habit around your 10% UI deviation from warpcast and you don’t have the stamina to build that habit either.

they each control their own backend (protocol)

This logic would say that Apple’s first party apps would automatically win.

How’d WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Signal do it?