Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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The skiff situation is a good reminder of why decentralized ecosystems are so valuable.

Challenge question @dwr.eth @v : how far along is Farcaster in this regard? If hypothetically your team got acquihired by Facebook (or Tencent, or...) tomorrow, how well would the ecosystem be able to keep going?

assume malicious acquirer. for ecosystem to survive intact would need: 

1. decentralized contracts
2. decentralized hub network 
3. easy to use client with 80% warpcast parity
4. good steward for protocol governance.

This is the technical pov. 
Business pov: If you have the client 99% of the users use, you *are* the protocol. You can break anything you like, hard fork hubs, change contract addresses, etc. and users will either not notice, or won't be able to do much.