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

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."

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

Yeah, the best FC app to build now is the non-obvious and fun. Hard to find that because... non-obvious...

imo arbitrary embeds is a huge innovation that could be the big differentiator for FC apps