On storage

- Don't overthink it since casts you like or reply will likely be pruned at some point

- Farcaster's explicit goal is *real-time* global state.

- I fully expect people to offer paid (or free with ads) archiving services, a Wayback Machine type thing, etc.

I love this feature as someone concerned about privacy and reducing my digital footprint.

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Yes! More things should be ephemeral.

I also think people overrate old tweets, casts, etc. and underrate the liability they present.

I agree that many things people post should be ephemeral, but there are also a lot of cases where I might post something that's meant to be used as a reference for many years in the future.