Farcaster

1/ How will Farcaster succeed if apps have to compete with Warpcast?

If there are enough daily active users of the protocol and the underlying data and APIs are actually permissionless, people will build new and interesting apps.

This has been the plan since the beginning (channels being a new thing along the way).

i’m standing fully behind @dwr.eth in this debate

there is many many many many people in the world and barrier to entry farcaster eco as a dev will imo decrease over time (through better infra and companies working on it)

as long as there are customers on the networks, new clients and experiments will be built

imo thinking in the competition lens these days is a big midcurve

we have a chance to build something meaningful in the world, but it’s not going to happen by complaining and theorizing what may fail on the way

lets build first and stress test the incentives later

Personally I am more worried about the « ownership » of the protocol than the app competition space.

I know there is an FIP process but it essentially boils down to « whatever hub runners decide to run », and there is a strong incentive for hubs to run whatever MM tells them to.

Do we know who runs hubs?

good q

will think about on the walk and come back here

how can teams (not users) best support client diversity, today Woj?

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yes, but its not because warpcast is killing other clients, it's because there are no free, consumer friendly alternatives yet (working on it!)

I partially agree. It is difficult today for a user affected for the algorithms of Warpcast to solve it because a majority of the network won't see him, despite the client used. Warpcast with the "priority filter" on is not a problem theoretically, but Farcaster is not censorship resistant yet due to its dominance

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Same, @phaverapp is fully onboard and look to bring our audience all onboard while gaining new ones from the network effects. At least I’m not building social to be the next Zuckerberg but rather ensure that nobody is. Dozens of great apps all on the same graph(s) is the goal.