Farcaster

so, when @v reached out and suggested i should join warpcast instead of raising the seed round, i asked one question:

“will joining warpcast increase our chances of making farcaster globally relevant vs building super on my own?”

then we both concluded that the answer is “yes” and the deal was done

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i don't think that reasoning follows, otherwise every dominant social network would have tons of clients.

perhaps the lesson is... more users -> higher temptation to consolidate and centralize -> one client?

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A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Which network are we talking about? The first one, or the previous one, or the one that just launched or the next one?

To be clear, I'm all for iteration, and I'm all for people speculatively investing on Farcaster's future openness, but let's not kid ourselves: When there's one dominant client, then whoever owns that client controls the network.

I wouldn't be here if I wasn't willing to be charitable to Farcaster's future diversity.

Concentration of power does not result in more clients. If it happens, it'll be despite that, not because of it. (I am hopeful that Farcaster will succeed despite of it!)

No other network is as open by default from the architecture 

@rish @manan and neynar wouldn’t be able to run an infra company powering a full blown super client without having Hubs to run off of

There’s a reason Twitter alt clients aren’t big. API risk is real