I do not understand why Brantly and Esk3nder are picking this fight with @dwr.ethth and @v 

Farcaster is one of the more successful projects to leverage ENS. Instead of critiquing how "ENS-aligned" FC is, perhaps it would be better for the ENS team to reflect on the limitations of ENS that Farcaster had to overcome.

there's some confusion around farcaster names, so let me clear this up: 

- your username on farcaster is ALWAYS an ENS name
- one kind of ens name is the farcaster name (v.farcaster.eth shown in client as @v)  
- the other kind of ens name is the L1 name (dwr.eth shown in client as @dwr.eth)

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Dom. Dark artist. 🖤 /alfafrens analyst 🖤 Creating emotionally evocative dark art as a means of self-discovery. 🖤 /zeroone-fam host 🖤#AIartist

So what’s the argument in favor of Me switching from @tormential to @tormential.eth (which I own)?

If I switch, can someone else start using @tormential?

@tormential.eth is unruggable, you own it onchain and you paid for it. 

@tormential (which is under farcaster.eth), is not owned by you and was given to you for free by farcaster, under terms and conditions which state that it can be taken away from you if you impersonate, scam etc as determined by farcaster.