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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I have some thoughts about the type of people who are best to help Farcaster grow. When it first emerged, Twitter was not trying to be a global source of news. It happened by organically when lots of people whom I'd call "news influencers" rather than journalists started using the platform for live updates, debates, and sharing information. I myself started accidentally doing reporting"while attending some anti-WTO protests and the Arab Spring as an ordinary curious observer debating people online and posting live updates. It was only after a large number of normie news junkies made Twitter a place where such conversations were happening that the stuffier and richer establishment types felt forced to join in. At that point Twitter became a "global public sphere" almost against its will. I still use Twitter and probably always will. But I think that other platforms can use the "news junkie effect" to create lively new public squares on the internet. A great city should also have more than one public square.
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
I totally agree. I believe that an interesting area for expansion is news junkies that are also worried about censorship. I would be very interested in helping create a "kit" (instructions, maybe some additional software, etc.) that will make Farcaster the best place for people in authoritarian regimes to break the news.
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KMac🍌 ⏩
@kmacb.eth
Interesting. My gut reaction is going after breaking news will not work. That space is owned by X & will take at least 10 years to displace the category winner & they will add decentralized crypto centric tech by then. But breaking news from those in authoritarian regimes is very interesting & noble beachhead. Can’t see this working wo encryption/zk & DC/GCs decentralized which is a 2025 priority for the FC protocol (ie MerkleM). What can we do to accelerate this when app lead protocol development is effectively controlled by a BDFL? Other categories seem more promising to me. eg full on lean into ‘money’, entrepreneurship & capital allocation for ‘public goods’.
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
My first thought was: 1. It's easy to create a FID without WC, if you don't care about using WC, an acceptable tradeoff for someone who needs an FID to break/leak some important piece of info. 2. If you have your own hub and post there (even using a simple command line tool), once the cast propagates across the network, there's no evidence of the origin. Ofc, if you're in China or Russia, ISPs may be monitoring TCP/IP traffic. So, how do you get around this?
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KMac🍌 ⏩
@kmacb.eth
Hopr for hubs🤷🏻♂️ https://hoprnet.org/
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