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Tbh I’m so confused why the email example is used as an argument AGAINST federation The way I understand it email is arguably one of the most sufficiently decentralised parts of the internet today Sure most people use Gmail or outlook but it’s not even hard to use something else or even self host without any noticeable difference to anyone else (and plenty of people do!) If farcaster becomes anything like email it will be wildly successful at its goal of being sufficiently decentralised Worse developer experience is also debatable because I predict apps will index subsets of the network anyway as it grows too large to index in its entirety. Already saw this happening in some cases with power badge https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x0c0f2718

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Spoke more about it in this thread https://warpcast.com/stephancill/0x5b69d8ca

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I’ve also been a fan of AT protocol since they released their initial authenticated data prototype a couple of years ago I think the way they are going about building their network is smart but often overcomplicated and could greatly benefit from blockchain components - something farcaster innovated on and gets right

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For those curious, this is why https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4a3a2c24

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Have tried spinning up a new email server or domain recently?

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100% agreed. Email is one of the best examples of a federated protocol that allows both big and small servers to interop fluidly. The argument that it's hard to host your own server IMO is a bit moot. Goes for most protocols. Can you host your own? Yes. Should you? Depends/maybe not.

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Carlos Matallín

On a related note, I’ve been reading about Nostr as an example of a simple protocol for decentralized social media that hasn’t been widely discussed. It doesn’t rely on an onchain identity system or necessarily use crypto for consensus. However, if the goal is to build a permissionless decentralized system, I think it deserves some attention. I do agree that users often gravitate towards Warpcast as their main client or towards centralized replicator services as developers. What makes Farcaster unique is sufficient decentralization plus the incentives that attract Ethereum aligned users to transact.

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agusti 🐘🔵

fwiw I use Fastmail 😹

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federation is the *desired* outcome, wrote about it here https://makemake.site/post/blockchain-bad-2#federation--decentralization

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im not sure i follow your entire post, but im with yiu on email. the way yiu talk about indexing slices of the network (in this post as well as yiur post from 11d ago) makes me thing of something akin to matrix combined with arweave

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I think Email is one of the ways of communication on the Internet.

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Great perspective! Email’s decentralization shows that it’s possible to succeed with diverse platforms, and Farcaster could follow a similar path to success.

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Have you heard of tutamail? I use that

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Fair point. 👍🏾

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Imo, don't compete with Gmail

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