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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Today's AMA - ask me anything you want to know about how Farcaster Hubs work!
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth
Is there a known path for how the "Snapchain" writing Hubs will be decentralized so Farcaster will continue to be a "can't be evil" vs a "don't be evil" system
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phil
@phil
what inspiration or patterns does the current hubs architecture take from blockchains, if any
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@90tun
I have 2, what happens if a hub goes offline, how does it affect the overall network my second is if there’s any incentive for running a hub
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Alemac
@alemac
I am curious about how do you ensure data consistency across all hubs?
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@flexasaurusrex
what would you consider the core benefit of a user running a hub?
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@pichi
A lot of frames rely on some type of reaction to get them to work. I ask people to try again in 15 minutes to allow hubs to sync. Is that a reasonable time? Should I be asking them to wait longer? Sometimes it feels instant to me because a frame works immediately and other times I have to bookmark and come back.
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Breck Yunits
@breck
What's the best 60 second tiktok style video explaining Farcaster Hubs?
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Icetoad 🎩 🍕 🎶 🐈 💚
@icetoad.eth
What sort latency are we talking about every time these things sync?
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@jacque
why does it take a while for them to catch up and at times hours to sync?
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Dumb designer🍄
@cryptodima.eth
Spam has become even more lively than before the changes
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christopher
@christopher
what's your top 3 social apps not including Warpcast and Twitter
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law
@traguy.eth
I don’t know if this fits But People often ask me “what is farcaster and what is warpcast. And why are there other apps asides warpcast“ I never know the exact way to explain to them (I’m not a developer and I’m new in crypto) so i don’t exactly know what to say. What is the best way to explain it how they are related , please.
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Tayyab - d/acc
@tayyab
What’s the origin of Hubs? Were you looking at other storage options and realized it wouldn’t work?
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M-MM
@tf
is there an easy way to send a public cast to someone?
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law
@traguy.eth
I don’t know if you saw stuff like telegram not having end to end encryption.. Seeing all that being talked about made me wonder Are there any measures in place to protect user data(messages and the likes included) and to prevent unauthorized access?
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Kiraa♡
@fwkiraa.eth
also if i turn on notifications for an account, sometimes it won't notify me when they cast or it comes 10 minutes late. just reporting this.
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Kiraa♡
@fwkiraa.eth
how long does it take to sync? asking for frames mainly.
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
I’m surely too late but my burning question is how can Farcaster scale if every hub has to store all the state? I suppose I also always wondered: if there is no incentive to run a hub, where does the money users pay for storage go?
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Maretus
@maretus.eth
What is the primary reason that causes hubs to go out of sync and casts to be missing like we’ve seen a few times in the past?
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