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How are FC clients building on channels if they're not part of the protocol yet?

i believe channels are just parent_urls that you reply to, so that is technically part of the protocol. channel follows are what's not protocol-level, so you can read and write casts to channels but you can't follow a channel outside of warpcast

Photography

What’s interesting is that the parent urls can be Warpcast urls, but they are also onchain urls that setup for a permissionless future. Eg hub api call: https://hub.pinata.cloud/v1/castsByParent?url=chain://eip155:7777777/erc721:0x36ef4ed7a949ee87d5d2983f634ae87e304a9ea2 that’s /photography

things like owners/moderation etc also not part of the protocol atm

+1 - yeah you can derive "channels" based on casts' parents, but the concept of a Channel is specific to Warpcast unfortunately

So things like Channel followers and metadata is *not* available via free / Hub data