Varun Srinivasan
@v
broadly speaking, there are two kinds of social networks - public (twitter, reddit) and private (facebook, snapchat) in a private network, encryption matters a lot because what you're saying should only be seen by trusted friends. in a public network, it doesn't matter because the intent is for *everyone* to see it
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Farcaster's focus is on building a public social network. That may change in the future, but our use case is squarely in the "i want to broadcast my thoughts as far and wide as possible" camp and not the "i'm here to talk to my friends in private camp" (DM's are the exception here)
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Barry
@baz.eth
Thanks, Varun. I don't consider Twitter to be public. It (sorta) was when I used to build on top of their firehose in the early days, but it's much more limited now My question still stands - if FC's goal is 1B+ DAU, that will require MANY mainstream adopters How do we prevent another Cambridge Analytica or worse?
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Pope Tomato II
@tomato.eth
Twitter and Reddit seem to be moving in the direction of becoming more like private networks, so it's even more important to create a truly public network. That being said, I think there's a need for things like e2e encryption in DMs on FC.
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Tmophoto
@tmophoto
the expectation of privacy on anything blockchain is kind of far fetched. The whole idea is that its public and verifiable, onchain is the polar opposite of private.
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