I would love to see the Farcaster DC/GC protocol become an open Internet standard for E2EE private messaging. The only "sufficiently decentralized" messaging layer with a censorship resistant identity layer.

Anything short of that, and we may as well just use WhatsApp or Telegram.

The communication layer of web3. Powering decentralized notifications, chat, and video for dapps, wallets, and users 🔔🦇🔊 push.org

Answering the question "where's the beef?"

Since day 1, devs have asked us for 1 thing: secure + private group chat. 

Today, we are stoked to announce the production launch of XMTP groups, leveraging MLS to bring the most secure, privacy preserving, soon-to-be decentralized group chat to devs.

Head over to Discourse to 
🔖 Learn more about XMTP's group chat features
🙌 Join Converse's waitlist for groups
🏗️ Build group chat with XMTP!

A big thank you to our core team, led by @nplasterer, and the amazing XMTP developer community for your continuous support & feedback -- we couldn't have achieved this milestone without you. 

And a special shoutout to Cryspen for building OpenMLS and helping us integrate it securely!

https://community.xmtp.org/t/xmtp-now-with-secure-and-private-group-chat-built-with-mls/666

@boscolo.eth we just released this level of privacy and security

Building and publishing Farcaster growth playbooks. Chief builder @percs

@boscolo.eth we just released this level of privacy and security https://warpcast.com/xmtp/0x0187bc25

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With the benefit of hindsight, this was the right decision.

DC/GC in Farcaster should:
1️⃣ Be based on FIDs & FC KeyStore. (XMTP has its own ID layer.)
2️⃣ Use Hubs for message delivery. (XMTP servers require additional payment.)
3️⃣ Use https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/99

Congrats! And we are fans of XMTP is doing but concluded it's not the right approach for building the future. Here are some of the reasons.

CEO @Ephemera, developing @XMTP. Message me here: https://converse.xyz/dm/shanemac.eth 

Congrats! And we are fans of XMTP is doing but concluded it's not the right approach for building the future. Here are some of the reasons.
https://warpcast.com/boscolo.eth/0x7b9e32ae

Those aren’t actually true re XMTP so we should discuss, happy to sit down and dig in.

+1. Replied with specifics in the original thread.