Shower Thoughts

It's wild how snappy/smooth the Farcaster experience is even during this explosive growth phase vs Friend Tech laggy/slow experience. 

Makes me wonder...how tf is Friend Tech still laggy when Farcaster now has more daily active users? 

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Solving my crippling Twitter addiction by scrolling on here instead.

I think FriendTech is way more onchain and struggles to keep up with all the indexing.

Farcaster is sufficiently onchain and most of the user activity is distributed over a growing number of web servers known as hubs.

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I think pairing an FID (on Optimism) to existing Ethereum addresses is where a lot of rich data comes from. But core user activity happens offchain around casting/likes/hubs.

Most of FT (from what I remember when I last used it) has to account for a ton of blockchain transactions which doesn’t scale well, it seems.

Interesting take. 

I actually think Farcaster is WAY more onchain (although sufficiently is a better description) based on how much of the data here you can pull on a Dune query. 

With only a couple thousand DAU it's bizarre FriendTech is still slow. Just as slow as peak use tbh