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balajis
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FARCASTER LOGIN What is Farcaster good for? It’s good for devs. It’s good for data analysts. And it’s good for social login. The last is the thing I’m most interested in. When you start a new site you can use Google or Apple login. And that’s fine. But it just gives you an email. And maybe Google Drive access in Google’s case. You can also use X/Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. But those APIs change so quickly and adversarially that you can’t really build features on your site that rely on them. So you end up using them similarly to Google login, where you get a username only. Now arrives Farcaster. The first fairly large scale decentralized crypto social protocol. Where people aren’t in it solely for the money. Now, for all users who log in with Farcaster, suddenly you can provide encrypted messaging between accounts and pull their full social context. And if they’ve connected a wallet and ENS, they have a balance and can spend and receive money in your app. This changes everything.
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Samo
@samo.eth
Deconstructing the kool-aid: 1/ Farcaster isn't relevant yet. And it won't be until the basic, "boring" features are added to Warpcast. Which they won't because the team has other plans. 2/ Farcaster isn't decentralized. Idk where you're coming from, but I don't see centralized things doing great in the long run. Sure, it's possible - humans have proved many times they're happy to play their worst available card - business and personal too. 3/ Any crypto "login with" solution provides the same benefits. FC didn't invent anything out of the ordinary here. Yes, the added social on top can be helpful - but can also be misleading: it's so easy to create personalities on the Internet, and it will get even easier with AI.
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Lloyd
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Seems like there’s already a fair amount of ai bots in the replies already.
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