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What is the most frustrating thing about Farcaster right now? Reply and like the replies from others that resonate. I’ll only ask clarifying questions (ie I won’t tell you you’re wrong) and then respond to a dozen or so top answers in a video this weekend with how we think about it.

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The fact that users have to pay just to create an account, there’s no “free trial” I know you guys are working on driving down the cost but it’s still unclear what the incentive is for non-WC apps to use FC for identity given that it adds friction and the value ultimately accrues to Merkle

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Is “free trial” a full read / write account from your pov? Or is free but read only sufficient?

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I think it would be nice if they could have a little bit of storage to “try things out” but even read only would be huge since it would allow other apps to grow the identity graph

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Let's assume it's free to create an account — what incentive does an app have to grow the identity graph? Assume they use Sign in with Ethereum and enrich their user onboarding with Farcaster data permissionlessly (like Zora or Rodeo). Why add the additional complexity vs. work on a feature that can drive additional growth?

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Because SIWE requires users to have an existing wallet If I'm building a social app I don't want to only build for existing crypto users but right now it doesn't make sense to choose FC exclusively for accounts (even if you're bought into the "one social graph" vision) because that limits you to existing FC users https://warpcast.com/robin/0x7bcc9e6b

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Assume the app developer uses something like Privy to solve for the wallet part—so the user of the other app now has a wallet. Why add onboarding to Farcaster? What incentive for the other app?

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Because they might not care about the user having a wallet, they care about them having a Farcaster account that they can continue to enrich across apps which ultimately brings more value to theirs Right now it makes no sense to go FC-only because it's limiting but I think flipping that and making it obvious to use FC for both new and existing accounts would be a big win for the protocol

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> Right now it makes no sense to go FC-only because it's limiting but I think flipping that and making it obvious to use FC for both new and existing accounts would be a big win for the protocol I don't understand what changes to make this happen. Mind trying to restate?

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It makes sense to use FC for existing users because you can benefit from the data (follows, casts, etc.) but going FC-only is a tough sell since you now have to convince any of your new users who aren't already on FC to pay for an account which adds a ton of friction (most devs will just skip and do auth another way)

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So at what point does that flip from your pov? $1 per account? $0.50? $0.10? $0.01? Or free? And if free — assume that if a Hub has X terabytes of storage — that's now completely filled with spam content. How do you make room for new, good users?

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