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Open channel, about anything that can push the farcaster ecosystem to be more open and transparent, growth doesn't matter if single parties have too much control, growth and hype here is second to transparency and decentralization.

Andrei O.

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Did another batch of changes on fosscaster.xyz Mainly focused on adding more functionality and refactoring the responsive design to make sure it works well on all screens. Also added mini app reordering and specific local client settings per user.

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Andrei O.

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Added new features/changes to fosscaster.xyz repo. Current features: - Sign up to Farcaster network using your EOA - Login to Farcaster network using The EOA that owns the FID or by providing an auth token - Cast, like, recast, quote, bookmark, delete cast - Bookmark casts page - Settings page - Multi accounts - Interacting with mini-apps including, doing TXs with your EOA - Uploading videos(if you account is allowed) and upload images - Update your farcaster profile - Add Mini apps as favorites and enable disable notifications for them - Search (un unauthenticated / guest mode) - Website full in guest mode, connect modal will appear only when you try to do an action that requires authentification Disable Waprcast trackers The primary unauthenticated feed is cryptoleft YouTube embeds (watch YouTube videos without leaving the website ) DMs and group chats without trackers Multi-mini-app runs up to 6 Mini apps concomitantly Animated avatars Compose cast intent Storage usage widget +... ran out of characters

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Andrei O.

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Added some new changes on fosscaster UI. - improved mini apps actions add/remove notification - added ability to upload videos if your account is allowed - added URL for triggering compose cast with predefined text and embeds, if the user is not logged in a login modal will be shown (URL schema exact as Warpcast) - added ability to open mini app by special URL /~/mini-apps/domain (domain dots are replaced with dashes example: https://fosscaster.xyz/~/mini-apps/fosscaster-xyz )

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Andrei O.

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The question is rhetorical at this point because a bet was put on a specific design that requires the creation of a wallet. The app could have used an external wallet for full user control but that ship has sailed. The real question is why there was no offer of bringing your own wallet. A lot of decisions have been forced upon the user we won't know how many users were lost because they didn't want to be forced to create yet a new wallet. Web3 means to authenticate with your own wallet but Farcaster doesn't know if it's Web3 or not, one day it pushes hard on Web3 concepts the next day pushes hard on Web2 concepts, and it says both are important, but not every concept is compatible. If somebody wanted to be cynical would see a plot unfolding where the reason was to only allow specific wallets, maybe even fees involved, not at all a good medium to create and promote the best UX.

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Andrei O.

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A smaller bite came faster: https://warpcast.com/andrei0x309/0x8eb35999 https://warpcast.com/v/0xe4d25db9

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Andrei O.

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On a desktop, it would be possible to sign in using any wallet if it has imported the custody account, unfortunately, they don't want that, and since the custody account is only imported on your mobile phone that's why you see this annoying screen and forced to use mobile.

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Andrei O.

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Here is a pack of accounts that push for decentralization and FOSS, accounts are mainly developers but not all. Probably this list is like 60/100 of all such accounts on the network, at least that's my feel based on feeds. If you feel left out, please reply to this cast. https://warpcast.com/andrei0x309/pack/Accounts-promoting-FOSS-yt3kgh

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Andrei O.

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Did this extension in a few hours, it will put a "quote to Warpcast" button on every tweet on X.com I will put the Chrome download link in the repo readme once it is approved, repo link: https://github.com/andrei0x309/x-to-warpcast-extension I need to make some minor changes after approval and re-release.

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Andrei O.

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I just did an update to this lib https://www.npmjs.com/package/farcaster-hub-utils mostly because I needed the update elsewhere.

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Andrei O.

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Made simple API(mostly for me) with stats about channels, cached at 1 hour. https://fc-frames.koyeb.app/api/channels-stats Eg return: { "totalChannels": 13844, "totalUSDChannelPrice": 346100, "avgFollowers": 737.0605316382548, "avgMembers": 13.347876336318983, "totalFollowers": 10203866, "totalMembers": 184788, "avgMembersPerFollower": 0.01810960669220862, "top10ChannelsByFollowers": [ "base - Base - [407437]", "memes - Memes - [370373]", "farcaster - Farcaster - [339363]", ... ], "top10ChannelsByMembers": [ "replyguys - reply guys - [2267]", "art - Art - [2257]", "itookaphoto - I Took a Photo! - [1754]", "wearesoearly - we are so early - [1480]", ... ], "avgModerators": 1.1475729557931234, "channelCreationGrowth": { "daily": 7, "weekly": 111, "monthly": 327 }, "channelsCreatedByMonth": { "1": 469, "2": 3828, "3": 1616, "4": 2884, "5": 1755, "6": 1147, "7": 613, "8": 383, "9": 286, "10": 189 } }

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Andrei O.

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Want to be able to verify farcaster frames with /airstack inside web workers and serverless functions? You can use this pkg I made: https://www.npmjs.com/package/airstack-frame-verify-web-light is ~7kb vs SDK which is ~5MB. Is perfect for constrained environments.

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Andrei O.

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@defikaran.eth The issue is that Warpcast does not use real deep links instead it uses web links ( those that are tied to the Warpcast domain). As such you can't capture the link on mobile without some root-level permissions which 99.9% of people won't have. This is an issue of centralization these links should have been something like farcaster:// or fc:// to enable multiple apps to respond to them, and not have them tied to a web2 domain.

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