Farcaster

zora, rodeo and interface all leverage public farcaster data to solve the cold start problem for their own private social networks, with their own follow & comment systems. 

Follows & comments in these apps aren't published back to farcaster.

is this a phase, or a broader indication of the long term incentives around apps leveraging social protocols just for GTM?

1. I think this is fine! Permissionless means you can build however you want.

2. For those that have been around for a while, Varun correctly predicted this and there was a lot of pushback from devs (remember amps?). Protocol follows only work if a large app like Warpcast is willing to follow that norm.

(To be clear again: these apps should build however they want and should not feel pressured to ask users for signers / add back to the graph if that's not beneficial to them.)

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They should not ask for signers (actually this could be a deal breaker for me in many cases).

However, they should provide the technical means (for example, API, flat file export), so that anyone who wants to build on top of *their* social graph can do so.

I should be able to build a tool that allows me to follow on Farcaster the accounts I follow on Zora. Or import my Zora follows to Rodeo.

We can't enforce this technically, but we can do so socially, by expecting it from "good citizen" apps of the Farcaster ecosystem.

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Yes, I mean unless there is a good reason.

> They should not ask for signers

you mean if they are not writing back to the protocol today?

I'm replaying the Facebook/Google Friend Connect debacle of 2008, the Facebook/Twitter FindFriends war in 2010, etc. in my mind. The social graph wars have already taken place more than a decade ago, and I'm trying to find the learnings and what's different now.

Back then, we said the same things, and yes, this was the expectation among web2.0 geeks, so what? Facebook, twitter, Google, got what they could for free and then closed their APIs.

Does it make a difference we have a protocol now? Not sure.

> However, they should provide the technical means (for example, API, flat file export), so that anyone who wants to build on top of *their* social graph can do so.

Strong disagree. :)