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

/braindump @brainbot

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.

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?

prev raced sprint cars, cofounded rocketr.net swish.id, energy data, farcaster news at shoni.xyz, building social ai on farcaster with @unbias. nomad 28

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

building [redacted] + /brianjckim /latenightcrew

what does warpcast mobile use for analytics?

do things, build and share

use my apps and frames:
vibehut.io/farcaster · 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?

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?

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

1. Channels will have unique names

2. Still figuring things out, but leaning to yes

Circling back here

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

postgres for most of our data. 

redis for stuff that needs to be cached or streamed.

what db architecture do warpcast queries run on?

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

Step 1: develop APIs on Warpcast.com, an early version is already available 

Step 2: move to an open source server , hosted by Warpcast but available to other clients 

Step 3: decentralize , exact mechanism tbd

How are we thinking about DCs? Will there be an API for these? Will there be a separate hub for DCs?

The only thing I changed my mind on is the federation bit, which is in the next post (The Goldilocks Problem)

how far away do you think you've moved from when you originally wrote Sufficient Decentralization of Social Networks? If not further away, how much tighter or closer do you feel it has become?

crypto girlboss in the streets, poison ivy between the sheets

where did you and Dan get the purple outfits from

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

what dish tastes like your past? /salty /fufu | seemore.tv/frdysk • https://rc.xyz/frdysk

If illegal activities were to thrive in Farcaster protocol, what will happen then?

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?

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

Chasing Curiosity. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Fullstack Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7. 
icbk.me/tayyab.fc

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

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