Farcaster

The BeavChris and BArt-Head Show

@artlu announces his departure from Farcaster, reflecting on his journey and regrets, while discussing the show's future
He also shares his story about early struggles with shadowbanning and the lengths to which he had to go through to get unbanned, hoping this will not happen to others on the platform
We are joined by special guests @king and @fufuprophet.eth, and celebrate the bittersweet finale of the bcbhshow
Sponsored by our friends at @interface

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@artlu's story is a stark reminder that without meaningful client diversity there is nothing inherently different about farcaster compared to web2 social from a censorship resistance perspective

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PFP is same across socials

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it may feel like it but i don't think that's necessarily true

even if it was, building a farcaster client today with the same feature set as warpcast (which is what we need) is not a good idea for a business

open source and community funded might be viable though

it feels like theres enough users now for more clients to succeed. looking forward to new clients that satisfies the need

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And that is their prerogative 

Until another client with different policies is able to compete with them farcaster can’t claim to be an improvement on legacy social on the censorship resistance point at least

Meh.
MM team is working hard to show engaging content to users and create retention.
If you are “shadow banned”, it most probably means you are not interesting for most Warpcast users they want to retain.

not unless warpcast decentralizes biggest moats: DCs and sign in with warpcast

do you think any app can compete with warpcast in the future? I fear not!

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it's already sufficiently distinguished via channels, warps, dev legos, etc

but not from a client diversity and hence censorship resistance perspective

Hmm fair point. But how can FC distinguish itself more clearly from traditional Web2 social platforms?

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there isn't a "no-censorship thing" on warpcast

X's no-censorship policy is mostly bullshit

sure, that’s true, but how far will this no-censorship thing go? I’m not for censorship, but what about toxic ideas and propaganda? This is a general opinion and not specifically about Farcaster, though.

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Artlu was (presumably mistakenly) labeled as spam internally on warpcast which resulted in him effectively being shadowbanned and not able to interact with people even though there were only a few hundred of us on the network at the time 

He had no idea what was going on for a long time and and it even caused him some emotional distress, which is understandable

He eventually befriended someone at warpcast that noticed the mistake and had it rectified