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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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
The most critical centralization vector in Farcaster rn, is Warpcast. Whoever controls Warpcast, controls the ecosystem. They can force hub changes, change the smart contracts (by pointing hubs to new ones). Maybe not today, where 20% or 30% of the users are more conscious about these things. But with 1m DAU? Easy.
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
That said, the WC team has provided the tools for anyone who would want to fight this hypothetical war. And even today, we are at a better place to fight a war agains a fb-owned Warpcast than fight Twitter two years ago (before farcaster).
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