Stephan
@stephancill
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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Stephan
@stephancill
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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@vrypan.eth
I agree in principle. But what is your point of friction exactly?
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Stephan
@stephancill
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
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@vrypan.eth
I see. Ironically, this is one of the problems that (I think) will be solved if user base reaches a certain threshold. I we have 1m active users, there will be a second and a third, VC-funded client that is as good or better than Warpcast, and we will get alternative approaches to content filtering and promotion.
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