Farcaster

The future of social media is envisioned as a space where platforms are governed by the participants themselves, rather than being controlled by corporate gatekeepers. So how are we feeling?

Some thoughts -

The Farcaster definition for sufficient decentralization is "if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it" and that's good enough for me for a social network protocol.  My expectation when I joined wasn't so much that we as users would "own the network" but that we would "own our identity"

Your desire - for a network or platform governed by users - couldn't that be deployed at a client level? Imagine an alt warpcast that is user owned and user governed? Couldn't that achieve what you want even if FC stays the same?

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✊🏻💯 - <sufficient> decentralisation! 👏 ↑ 

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on a scale through to: <total/absolute> decentralisation
(many such things on the spectrum)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the insane effectiveness of the merkle-tree, do the least possible (sufficient) to pragmatically scale and scope (nimbly explore the design space) while's also picking ALL (or as much as is possible) of the security/permissionless/open/commons/standards properties of these kinds of brave-new-world security systems.