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On storage - Don't overthink it since casts you like or reply will likely be pruned at some point - Farcaster's explicit goal is *real-time* global state. - I fully expect people to offer paid (or free with ads) archiving services, a Wayback Machine type thing, etc.

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And you can always buy more storage if you're a preservationist.

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Preservationist here. What I'm worried about is not so much the increasing cost of preserving my activity over the years. I'm concerned that in many of the FIP-2 use cases, I will not be able to preserver fc activity that's important to me.

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For example, comments on my blog posts. How can I preserve comments from every single user that used FIP-2 to comment on my blog? Or likes on my 15-minutes-of-fame cast? These are not mine, and don't even belong to a single user I could buy storage for.

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This is a huge problem for the outcasters.xyz newsletter. @paragraph has integrated fc replies as comments. Im also linking back to Warpcast app for each curated cast.

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Just save the comments within the app?

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If you have to implement something like this, you could probably use a web2 commenting form. There are advantages to using fc, but the value proposition starts to look less attractive. What if there was a way to purchase storage units not just for a user's messages, but also other messages that interest someone?

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@ghostlinkz.eth

If it was easy for me to pay to preserve individual casts and all the replies + reactions, then I would do that for all casts that we curate in the newsletter. It’s important for us that these casts remain available in WC, so when subscribers click the images in the newsletter, they can see full discussion/context.

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So, we would need a new MESSAGE_TYPE_SAVE that can point to any message, and would preserve it and make it count against my own quotas. From an end-user perspective this is like a bookmark, but it can point to any message type, so it's more powerful. Does this sound like a feasible/reasonable workaround @dwr.eth?

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It's not simple, there should be a remove_save too, and there are complications in the logic. And I guess that hubs are not optimised for something like this. But at a very high level.

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Not sure. It’s not a near-term priority. Expect others to solve with 3rd party services for the small % of people who care about this.

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Also if you pay right now but then the cast receives new replies and reactions after you pay, what happens to those? It would be fair if all that was preserved was everything before you paid. That’s how a snapshot works anyway.

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