Farcaster

thought it was interesting to compare the toolbar against twitter’s now that the wallet is rolling out

think this highlights a core moat of an open social network- purer competition of builders/ideas (been thinking about this a lot lately)

ai vs wallet
twitter uses ai as a product, but on an open social network it’s always present in the feed anyway. commodified and competing against all the others will drive even better models in the open space. wallet on the other hand makes sense to be tied to the client (or handed off to a bespoke wallet) and separated from the feed directly

video vs apps
video just seems like a tik tok compete, and not fully fleshed out (could be wrong, don’t use it a lot). whereas apps promote _anything_ being built, not just consumed. we’re so so early in this, but I’ll always remember fb/twitter cutting off 3rd party apps right when they were starting to mature. no/minimal risk of this with an open network which will drive faster experimentation and solidify in new areas

doing stuff onchain | bc skier | surfer | baker

great observation and great take. damnit i really do miss working with you!!!