nicholas 🧨 on Warpcast

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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.

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Counterpoint: flink (a side project so far) has been >50% of sign ups since we went permissionless. :)

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there’s like 200 real people on here. gotta wait a bit

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too early too tell imo 1. you can build a totally new app and leverage building on farcaster purely for the existing liquidity of users. your users would never hear about warpcast 2. warpcast will stay mid (best for most people) for a while, it’s a good opportunity for other clients around specific use cases

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Twitter's bumpy history is full of lessons. Here's a good read on the topic. Screenshot of the part I find most relevant to what we're discussing here. How would Twitter defend its position if it did not control the API? https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/

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It's less "the app", and more of "the textual, feed-based app". In that realm, sure. There will probably be WC and a long tail of niche clients. But zoom out and there are plenty of other kinds of apps you can build. I'll bet that many become very big—it's just that building actually new apps is hard and takes time.

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It’ll probably dominate for awhile, but Merkle Manufactory is incentivized to maximize value of the protocol, and to do that they need to have their finger on the pulse of consensus and help foster alt clients. Barrier to launching a client is low and AI is making it lower every day.

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How’d that work for Netscape? And then Internet Explorer?

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It's too early to tell. I definitely agree about power laws but it's still too early. SMTP: Hotmail then Gmail HTTP / HTML: Netscape then IE then Chrome (Safari on Mobile, since iOS doesn't really allow any other browser). Yahoo then Google File Sharing: FTP then BitTorrent then Cloud Storage

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Also, Warpcast has the first mover advantage.

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don't think I agree. it's a sort of different world but in the federated space people are moving toward clients with a pov and/or niche focus plus slight feature variations they identify with. I feel that lines up with what's possible for farcaster. it probably won't happen fast but I could see it happening

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Analog tweetbot for twitter. Basically an app for super users but was such a small % of users that twitter basically let them just keep using the API and didn’t kill them when they killed everyone else

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I'm in week 1 of my Warp-fast experiment; it's not easy. WC has a lot of USPs that alt clients don't, including but not limited to: - canonical links - DCs (mobile only) - IAPs - the best notifications - shared state across mobile+desktop(web) clients - early rollout (e.g., new channels excitement)

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We are always fix longcasts through some greasemonkey action. If @v and @dwr.eth see serious usage through an extension to the site then my bet is that they would consider it. A similar dynamic is playing out with twitch.tv which basically requires BTTV to see all of the emotes everyone uses.

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What is warpcasts censorship policy? I assume there will be different clients w variations in censorship policy.

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