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Building @warpcast and @farcaster, new dad, like making food

An interesting Farcaster idea:  what if apps paid for storage, not users? 

- Apps buy a chunk of bytes.  
- Free to allocate to casts, reactions, follows in any way. 
- Free to assign to users in any way (fixed rate, free) 
- Lower cost by avoiding "unused storage" 

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Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Main benefits are that: 

1. Cost of onboarding new users is lowered. Apps can front users and kick them out if they are spammy later. 

2. Storage utilization is more efficient. Lots of users overpay and don't use bytes, apps could get better economies of scale.

Decentralization is still achieved because anyone can create an "app" for free and host themselves. There's no overhead other than needing an fid, which could be your own fid (self hosted app)

Fid registration would probably still need to be metered by having each user make a transaction to acquire an fid.

If this weren't necessary, apps or users could create infinite fids which would make indexing data on the network practically impossible.

As far as storage goes, the rough rule is that a user can only add data if the app has more bytes left. Otherwise the app has to find some way to free up space or pay for more data. 

This is a lot more complexity for app developers but might be better for users in the long run by providing different models of paying for storage. 

Warpcast might offer each user a flat fee for a flat amount of storage (like today), Supercast might offer free signups and kick out spammy users aggressively.

I actually thought this was how it was intended to be used when I first read the documentation 😂 I think it previously mentioned something about paying for storage for apps / servers or something