Zinger ↑ is job hunting
@zinger
Open source this, open source that How about you open your code editor and build something yourself instead of demanding that a company give you all of the pieces you need? So sick of the entitlement from some devs on here, most apps wouldn’t even get retained usage if you could clone Warpcast anyway Enough.
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Stephan
@stephancill
Would agree with you if we were not talking about by far the most dominant client for a decentralized social protocol Companies (rightfully) don’t want to compete with warpcast so we are not seeing adoption of alternative clients, which totally undermines key features of decentralized social Warpcast being open source (even just as a reference) would help prevent a lot of expensive work from being duplicated and level up the average farcaster client standard
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
> help prevent a lot of expensive work from being duplicated and level up the average farcaster client unfortunately neither of these would remotely pan out in practice, it wouldn't be a useful reference (too hacked together, too opinionated, too expensive to run, too much legacy cruft) an indie client is going to be better off building on Neynar APIs to start and adding differentiated features on the product side the right approach for open sourcing IMO is to identify core components that every client will need (i.e. syncing data from hubs (Shuttle), SIWF (AuthKit), potentially a wallet) and then invest into making unopinionated open source versions of those
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Zinger ↑ is job hunting
@zinger
But switching costs are zero when you have a portable identity and social graph so theoretically if someone built a better client they could win, right? What’s wrong with Opencast, Herocast, or any of the other open source Farcaster apps out there? Can’t devs just use those?
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Mike | Abundance
@abundance
Yes, problem with Farcaster is that it's very "top-heavy" with a venture-backed client run by the same team as the protocol itself, making it nearly impossible to compete at scale. A bare-bones open source client would certainly be appreciated, and help ecosystem growth (def can't hurt!) What would really help tho is if we had more insight into Merkle's profitability strategy, which could provide other investors clarity on the risks of investing in clients/apps on Farcaster
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