Jason Goldberg Ⓜ️ 💜
@betashop.eth
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
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vincent
@pixel
Two cents of a client-builder (Phrasetown): barebones client aren't differentiated enough to win. A future I can see happening: "Twitter clones" are as undifferentiated as podcasting clients, because they all consume the same data. Warpcast is positioned to win the Twitter-clone category because "official client."
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vincent
@pixel
Look at podcasting: three big apps (Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast), and long tail of niche apps. My view is same thing will happen with Twitter-clone clients. (Some FC builders don't agree with me, happy to be proven wrong, but that's how I see clients now, default undifferentiated.)
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MOLO
@molo
agree. and the huge value of FC is that the client has such a wide-open possibility space, so there can be many clients that occupy distinct forms and can coexist but take separate pieces of the whole pie
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Kuz
@kuz
New here, but isn't getting users to use the protocol the win here? Thought the whole point is to cater for different communities no matter how "small" the client app they use
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