Farcaster

farcaster clients should locally replicate all of the logged in user's messages and sync it to icloud so that if they don't pay for storage and their data gets pruned the app can just prompt them to pay and republish all their data from the backup

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why wouldn't it be? archives for even the most active users should be <10mb

great idea

is this actually feasible at scale?

Data loss is a violation of user trust. Local backup is so much more than nice‑to‑have—it’s a essential trust feature.

I learned the hard way when my early FC Intrepid‑day photo puns vanished. We need the ability to keep our own archive so we can republish in one tap. (Or some sort of other native and easy way to auto-renew backup function. Some way of making sure data loss is highly improbable. I didn’t even know where the data and storage tab was on FC before it was pointed out to me.) 

Big thanks to @stephancill for surfacing this to the farcaster community.

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but Mark fortunately in your case the data "loss" is just a rendering issue in warpcast. they used to upload all image uploads to imgur and link it in the casts - which has changed since, and now their rendering of old imgur links is broken (?)

you can see what the cast looks like under the hood here:
https://explorer.neynar.com/0xda121d738c3515cbccd5abcb88b6f2f89d03294b

and then if you go to that imgur link you'll see it's still there 

if your storage units had expire you would have lost that data forever unless someone archived it for you

We could easily do this with SwiftData. It syncs automatically to iCloud for free. Good idea.

This is a great idea. A dont like the thought of the (imo significant) history happening here suddenly disappearing.