Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
🌶️ 🌶️ Warpcast and Jam now offer 2 alternative yet compelling Farcaster user experiences - Wc is better suited for longtime users and members of clubs like Purple, attendees of Farcon - Jam is better suited for new users, with better/more discovery and search @v @dwr.eth would be great... longcast.jam.so/jjmnto
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pol
@pol
This is a complicated topic: should protocols also build clients? There is no right answer but my guess would be that the best way to gather the best community of builders is to only do the protocol, and maybe build a demo client.
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pal 🟪
@pal
I think the answer is yes. Uniswap was successful because of a great application / UI. But other apps should be able to permissionlessly thrive as well, which is what farcaster team is dedicating the most resources to
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pol
@pol
About Uniswap: to me this is very different. You don't need more than one client for Uniswap and most of the activity can be done from protocol to protocol, which does not really make sense in web3 social. Here the diversity of clients and their ability to innovate seem to be the key success factor.
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pal 🟪
@pal
Perhaps we have different time horizons in mind. For me, the protocol team should still be building a great client because it's so early and there's no clear great client right now. But long term, I agree with you. If a diff. client took off, I would guess that Merkle would slow the work on Warpcast and be happy.
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Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
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pal 🟪
@pal
Thinking about @pol's comment more, I might have been wrong about the Uniswap example.
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pol
@pol
About your comment on short term vs long term: I see what you mean and it might be optimal (also, you understand better builder's needs when you also build a client yourself). But it's all a question of signals I believe: if the protocol builds a client, developers know that they have an unfair advantage.
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Jason Goldberg
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it's an unknown, for sure in a centralized social network the value of the network is the number of nodes in the network in a decentralized social networking protocol, there should be additional value from the number of clients/app (hubs/spokes) not just end nodes, but it has not been proven out yet
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