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

what’s a net novel feature i will see if i start using Jam right now?

greg summarized how i feel really well. I also feel we are taking protocol definition akin to api extremes b/c of lack of imagination instead of treating it like social graph. Colin demonstrated this social graph leverage with his current app and new ideas he continually posts about

neat idea: https://warpcast.com/colin/0x97075e

yeah but Colin will also be subjected heavily to the control of Merkle unless they build out a really smart protocol dev team. E.g. the custody key is held in the Warpcast app so that‘s the upstream power source that controls it all