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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
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?
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If FB acquired Waropcast today, they could do a proprietary hard fork of the hubs and stop syncing with the rest of the network. 99% of users wouldn't notice. FC is proprietary now. Rn, the only defense we have against this so far is the popularity of frames. But 99% of devs use neynar, so...
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