Farcaster

zora, rodeo and interface all leverage public farcaster data to solve the cold start problem for their own private social networks, with their own follow & comment systems. 

Follows & comments in these apps aren't published back to farcaster.

is this a phase, or a broader indication of the long term incentives around apps leveraging social protocols just for GTM?

Shipped on farcaster: @larrybot, @qdau, @frames, @framesfun, /open-frames, farcasterchannels.com, farcaster.id, @mod, @search, @discove

i think the problem is there’s not an easy way to permissionlessly save custom data to farcaster protocol, you have to wait for devs to make the change. if fc storage was more neutral or turing compete, at least some of these apps might choose to store their custom interactions back to the network