Farcaster

gm. Fulltime degen, building fun stuff onchain. 
Master of Disaster Frogworks, /ottodao bullfrog, ex @astaria

At least 2 don’t use Neynar at all in any way.

There’s some that just use hosted hubs and no custom APIs so theoretically can swap out to their own node or another node provider underneath.

The question has the appearance of being pointed but the truth is that doesn’t ultimately matter. It doesn’t matter whether coinbase wallet uses Zerion APIs or uses a raw ethereum node to show your list of assets. What matters is whether the underlying systems give the _option_ to exit which is available to everyone on ethereum and Farcaster. There’s no lock in by definition. Anyone can run a hub or build a competitive developer platform (many have).

Can the “at least 2” clients on the farcaster protocol that are not relying on neynar please come forth? I want to talk to you 🙏

indexing

Not a client in this sense, but we run all our own independent infra at /indexing (and power a few other apps along the way)

Practically haven't had bandwidth to do it 🙃, but I'd love to open source what would effectively be a "light client" / node for FC data

It'd be a fork of what we have in house and built atop JS + SQLite with a goal being portability to browsers (think embedded indexing for apps)

Sounds awesome! Been a fan of light client efforts in the Ethereum world too. Let me know when you’re planning to go that direction and if you need any help :)