Saturday AMA — ask me anything on your mind about Farcaster, and I’ll try to respond

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

I like building things and exploring new places. MrKevinOConnell.github

@neynar prev @hypeshot

Almost everything, except the fact that user identities would live onchain

What’s a part of farcaster that you think is different from what you thought it would be on day 1?

Artist from the future.

NFTs since 1998.

Bitcoin since 1985.

Your second favorite artist's second favorite artist.

https://tomato.eth.co

I think we can make it much less likely if channels take off. 

A thousand cozy corners where you hang with your friends instead of one big room full of strangers.

What's your plan for keeping Farcaster from becoming a rage factory as it becomes more popular, which is what's happened to pretty much all successful social networks.

if in 10 years, farcaster has "failed", what do you think the biggest reason will have been?

what does warpcast mobile use for analytics?

the typical social network split is 90/9/1, where 1% produces most of the content , 9% occasionally engage and 90% lurk. 

Last time I checked FC was roughly in that bucket

Do you feel that engagement is too concentrated? Ai summaries are spitting out the same people

Over a long enough time period, I hope we become the foundation for all networks to build on. 

But in the short term, I don’t think we’re going to be a replacement for any existing social network.

are there forms of public online communication you think farcaster *won’t* replace?

Head of Growth: Webx, CoinPost, Motto: Learn/Build/Share. Web3 builder - building /farthercast hosting /web3japan /dailydegenquiz

That Girl Scout cookies frame was a big one for sure 

@bountycaster is also pretty cool

What has been the most innovative thing you’ve seen come about due to farcaster ?

On Channels:

1. No more unique names? Multiple channels can all have the same display name?

2. CID cost & renewals (downstream of question 1), does the existing owner get to keep renewing at a nominal fee?

Founding Engineer shadow.xyz | Values-Aligned Communities | citizen of Black Rock City | c u @ /farcon

1. Channels will have unique names

2. Still figuring things out, but leaning to yes

Circling back here

https://warpcast.com/brenner.eth/0xb4a9cd68

coding, algorithmic art, workshops stc.github.io

1. Lots of trial and error 

2. Channels might bring in people not interested in crypto

1. what method do you use to conclude with these innovative ideas that work af on the social domain like warps, channels, frames etc?

2. you have insights / feedback on how non-(yet)-crypto people relate to  farcaster?

I like building crypto apps and learning new things. 

vmathur.com

Focus on features that people will use at least once a day. 

Features that are used less often (e.g. onchain events, location) matter a lot less.

Are there any instances of failed experiments that have lead to interesting, unexpected learnings?

building and yapping

Video call for Warpcast ppl, anytime here: vibehut.io/farcaster

Frame that gets you followers or DEGEN
crown-content.vercel.app


What would you build if this was available?

is there any interest in opening a sidebar section on warp cast to devs?

visual artist, photographer | linktr.ee/cardelucci

What part of FC is stored onchain? Just our user information? Or all casts? Rending storage confuses me a bit in regards to this.

Android developer of TopHattr DEGEN widget, author, vector and AI artist. I like to live dangerously safe.

https://linktr.ee/fraim.10


Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist.

http://opacity.network

Advisor @ EV3 Ventures

1. None right now 

2. Fund things that help the protocol grow. But not until we have a much larger amount. The overhead to set up a foundation, get lawyers etc would eat up half the fees in there which seems wasteful and time consuming rn. 


For now Warpcast is funding such things on its own balance sheet.

Do you think there is a place for a token on the network side?

What’s the plan for the treasury of fees from signups

Builder of software and songs. 

Music, Blog, Website: https://www.mattlee.world/links

React.

They’re in a monorepo and share some of the data layer

What stack is Warpcast web built with and how do you coordinate between it and the react native app?

art that embodies endless curiosity • forever /artmaxi • /purplepilled coming soon • more at: ashira.xyz • studying is my life practice since long before crypto

what's the specs of the machine(s) that nemes.farcaster.xyz is running on?

cypherpunk wannabe, engineer working on @frames /open-frames /opencast
https://stephancill.co.za

We run it on AWS ECS with 8 vCPUs, 32 GB of RAM and EFS for storage

Engineer - Corporate - Entrepreneur - Business.
2021 - Markets ~ BTC ~ NFTs.
Founder/Building/Artist @w3p.eth /web3punks w3pnfts.xyz
& Memes.


We used to have it but removed it. Wasn’t very useful. 

Bots have lots of NFTs too.

Will there be something for the NFT profile photos, like some sort of sign/border/frame for legitimacy of the user? Could help with bots too.

Chasing Curiosity. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7. 
Icebreaker.xyz/tayyab

What non-farcaster software release in your past do you have the fondest memory of?