ted (not lasso) on Warpcast

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open this cast and scroll to the top for a valuable back-and-forth between @swabbie.eth and @dwr.eth on the bet the merkle team is taking with farcaster. recommend reading to better understand the POV (and would love to hear more counterpoints or pusback!) https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x639bfcc3

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https://warpcast.com/stephancill/0x97e1ed0d

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Who exactly is the “merkle” team? Is it interchangeably used for fc dev/team?

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They both enjoyed the conversation but icl farcaster better than bluesky Dan proved that

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I find it so interesting that everyone assumes that Warpcast will be the only client that matters. Just because we are in a current state doesn't mean it will persist in perpetuity. Its a interesting point that people just accept, but its not a given.

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I read it. I understood none of it. Just happy to be here with all these big brains that do. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Genuinely don’t understand a thing 😅

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I'm just an absolute urchin who tried to read all that deep discussion but ended up thinking "God damn this guy is making bank in moxie from this conversation with dan" 🤣

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federated is how most protocols today operate in web3 anyway (the org running all nodes of an L2 for e.g.) . @dwr.eth is just saying it out loud imo. Completely decentralised alternatives will exist & farcaster / warp cast might push towards that if not itself be the one. Its a playground at the end of the day.

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I have the same question as @swabbie.eth in terms of why Farcaster vs something like Lens where it's fully onchain. I'm not technical enough to fully understand the trade-offs in the long term, so it ends up being a bet on merkle vs the other teams taking a different route. I definitely agree that identity existing on an open, permissionless, and composable platform is the bright future we need to build for. Major downside I see from what I understand of federated systems, is that long term you never grow out of those trust assumptions that are essential early on for both paths, but can be increasingly made permissionless on a sufficiently decentralized platform.

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I enjoyed reading this feels like I just explored an island of knowledge, I do think warpcast going towards full blockchain will be great for merkle in the long run and I think fc has its unique features and is superior to bluesky I just don’t know if it would stay that way long term if things do not change, thanks for sharing Ted

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From what I can gather federated systems offer some advantages in terms of unified governance, coordination, efficiency, security, compliance, scalability, and accountability but they may also come with some drawbacks, such as reduced autonomy for individual entities compared to a fully decentralized system which is a big factor. Farcaster is a decentralized network which might ultimately head towards oligopoly but I would take that over a federated system as there is full autonomy.

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Wow such an interesting discussion! Thanks for sharing. Btw except for all the technical topics the difference between WC and all other social network is the authenticity of users.

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I think federated systems might be a bit of a pain for devs at first, but they're actually a great way to keep things decentralized and prevent any one company from getting too powerful.

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Dan promised beefs and you get them, ahaha, a man of his word!

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