Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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The skiff situation is a good reminder of why decentralized ecosystems are so valuable.

Challenge question @dwr.eth @v : how far along is Farcaster in this regard? If hypothetically your team got acquihired by Facebook (or Tencent, or...) tomorrow, how well would the ecosystem be able to keep going?

Believe I’m one of the first folks to mention and invite Vitalik to farcaster/ lens / mastodon (2022 before the tweets:)

Here’s my neutral perspective since we’re involved with all 3 protocols. -

Founder of Mask.io / suji_yan.twitter checkout /firefly-garden

However in terms of hubs/nodes (which lens don’t have this since its backend is universal on polygon) farcaster have way less alternatives. From geo perspective activityPub have the widest convergence and with the support of many NGO/endowments. Currently API provider of fc is really centralized.

Farcaster is more robust (than mastodon etc) on key management since it’s using DID/eth like keypairs. However the FID assigning system is still centralized, so is the client and many functionalities. In an hostile shutdown probably we need to fork the whole thing and remap the social graph in a new place.