Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

9. A reasonable person could argue that while the protocol data is credibly neutral and decentralized, client concentration in a single dominant client, i.e. Warpcast, creates de facto centralization and breaks credible neutrality. Additionally, even if you individually use a non-Warpcast client, your audience is likely to use that client and so their policies still affect you.

Fair criticism. The way to improve that state is to have another large client, i.e. Coinbase Wallet, that can offer a reasonable comparable app UX and has a large enough budget to sustain development, user acquisition etc.

But longer term, the single best way to solve this is have 10/100/1000x  daily active users on the protocol. Assuming that the data continues to be credibly neutral and permissionless, a large total addressable market (TAM) will attract well-funded competition.

If you believe that the ulterior motive for Merkle after 4+ years of trying to build a protocol is to "rug" the protocol, then why are you still here?

Cautiously optimistic on “not getting rugged”. I respect @dwr.eth , and the Merkle team has done a wonderful job of not rugging so far. 

But as we both know in history, timelines fork, incentives change. So I’m here as I’ve always been as a community member helping to grow us forward… but always prepared for the worst.

Chasing Curiosity. Pluralist. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Fullstack Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7, fid:66
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I think this is the attitude most “patriotic” people should have. 

Which is “be a good citizen and believe you are on the right side of history, but know that groups of people can be lead astray by the elite governing classes”.