it's OK for farcaster's endgame not to be a highly fair/permissionless/censorship-resistant network of apps

but if that is going to be the case then it may as well stop half-assing decentralization and focus on making warpcast the center of everything in crypto

and importantly we need to find a different solution to the things that are broken about online social today

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inb4 but hubs but product led protocol but client opportunity

you can't solve these problems without it being top of mind at *all* times. cutting corners because they are unsexy to consumers is not how this stuff gets fixed

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i would say lack of client diversity but i think the problem is deeper than that in the sense that incentives are not aligned for alternative clients to succeed in the farcaster ecosystem

client diversity wouldn't be such a big problem today if warpcast tried to innovate on fair content delivery but their heavy handed approach to spam proves that this is not a priority for them at all

warpcast's focus on algorithms and "interesting content" also gives me no reason to believe that they won't end up going down the same path as all the extractive platforms we are all too familiar with today in traditional social. maybe crypto rails gives them an easier way to monetize so that incentives aren't too misaligned with users' in this case but it's hard to say at this stage

I agree in principle. But what is your point of friction exactly?