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."

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

The only true investment you can make is in yourself.

True, but I see lots of people going down the path of Twitter-clones, including myself. Likely because that's the most obvious thing to do.