Farcaster

I think federated is much easier in the short to medium term, much harder in the long term.

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!)

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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

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

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.