Founders

what are some examples of founders who built an open protocol *and* a VC-funded startup?

farcaster is my first exposure to such a valiant attempt, and I’m wondering who else did this historically (both successfully and not as successfully)

neuroscience phd, healthcare marketer, interfaith chaplain. co-host of the /okbanger show and vibe imagineer for /christin. https://seemore.tv/christin

Former CPA | Alumni @Deloitte @ConsenSys | @MetaCartel | Now Governance @404dao & Writing paragraph.xyz/@sharingiscaring

I wasn’t sure how to define this either 😅 maybe somehow satisfying users of both camps?

Have you heard of embrace, extend, extinguish

Have you heard of embrace, extend, extinguish  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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PFP is same across socials

FIP 171 is a recent Farcaster Improvement Proposal.

Study its progress for insights on how the FC protocol evolves. Caveat: it's one example only out of more than 171 proposals.

Useful to compare with and learn from the historical examples you shared in the Wikipedia article

No Channel Channel.

why would Twitter still have one then? you think they have a feature with 0% usage?

Discord is a chronological feed, group chats are chronological feeds, consumers use them

the "golden age" of Warpcast that the OGs talk about was a chronological feed 

you're limiting your product options because a few megacorp social sites made algos their priority

you can help undo "the death of the follower" if you're willing to go against the dogma on this product decision 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianshepherd/2024/04/27/the-death-of-the-followerthe-next-era-of-content-creation/

Relevant and interesting discussion happening here

Relevant and interesting discussion happening here https://warpcast.com/kenny/0x2a8d14be