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@zinger
Open source this, open source that How about you open your code editor and build something yourself instead of demanding that a company give you all of the pieces you need? So sick of the entitlement from some devs on here, most apps wouldn’t even get retained usage if you could clone Warpcast anyway Enough.
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Stephan
@stephancill
Would agree with you if we were not talking about by far the most dominant client for a decentralized social protocol Companies (rightfully) don’t want to compete with warpcast so we are not seeing adoption of alternative clients, which totally undermines key features of decentralized social Warpcast being open source (even just as a reference) would help prevent a lot of expensive work from being duplicated and level up the average farcaster client standard
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@zinger
But switching costs are zero when you have a portable identity and social graph so theoretically if someone built a better client they could win, right? What’s wrong with Opencast, Herocast, or any of the other open source Farcaster apps out there? Can’t devs just use those?
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Stephan
@stephancill
Switching costs are a whole different conversation imo. Cost to switch apps where you consume/create content is low but cost to switch apps that custody your fid (for sign in with farcaster) are very high right now - im working on something to fix this Opencast and herocast are hobbyist efforts. Not realistic to expect them to compete on performance and ux against warpcast which has multiple staff level engineers working on it full time
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