Farcaster

Will we see feed-algorithms-as-a-service (FAAAS) someday? Whereby any FC client allows the user to select their preferred algo from a list of open-source options published in a standard format to GitHub.

Various algos would offer followers only, followers + their followers, language-specific, zero-censorship, OGs, etc

I call this idea the "feed marketplace" as opposed to "feed-as-a-service" which is what @openrank and others are doing. 

The challenge building a "choose your algorithm" is that the most interesting feeds are no longer just "algorithms" or fancy SQL queries.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

"Choose your algorithm: nowaday really boils down to choosing the data pumped into the ML ranking models + choosing the ML objective function. Which is easily doable once who pays for the many models being trained and served is solved. Needs a scalable feature store for all of them too.