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Discussions related to Opencast, a fully open source Twitter flavoured Farcaster client. https://github.com/stephancill/opencast

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commoditize farcaster

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just merged a PR that adds a docker-compose.yml to opencast with help from @gabedev.eth it now only takes a few commands to get a completely standalone farcaster client running locally if you try this and get stuck feel free to cast in /opencast or dm me https://github.com/stephancill/opencast

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might fuck around and add mini apps aka composer actions to opencast

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hopefully one day we'll see a lot more diversity in this section

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the shipping will continue until i run out of ideas

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cross platform login with a single signer and no backend has been achieved internally via largeblob (proof of cross-platform in reply)

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opencast is in a decent state and is pretty straightforward to run locally now. lmk if you have questions about setup - lots of low hanging fruit for improvements still, will open more issues. being able to run it again was the main priority for this pr - been using a private hosted instance for a few days now. not quite happy with my server's performance so might look at dedicated resources for the public version https://github.com/stephancill/opencast

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local indexer stream + backfill + client dev server running in <4gb of memory (this is still pretty bad) total size of the indexed db for my network is around 2.3 gb

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thinking about implementing smarter notifications in opencast: currently if you don't use opencast for a while your notification count will build up because there is no way for it to know that you've read your notifications in another app question: would it be fair for a client to assume that you have cleared your notifications in another client if it sees that you have posted messages (e.g. casts or reactions) from another client?

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today you have to create a new signer for each device that you use with opencast on, which isn't great ux. would like to experiment with ways to address this without exposing user accounts to the risk of plaintext keys being stored in a centralized db some initial ideas 1. populate the signer from a passkey somehow (i think largeBlob enables this?) 2. metamask snap for farcaster signers (would also enable you to sign into many apps with the same signer) lmk if you have thoughts on this :)

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opencast updates today - added basic frames support - lazy indexer can now listen for new signers from a specific app FID as a signal for initiating a new root target to sync getting closer to a working hosted instance. thinking of adding some rules for authorizing new signers for my hosted instance (think hypersub or power badge) and using authorized signers as the basis for authentication - decentralized user db

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soooo excited for opencast revival arc!

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today - notifications fixed - farcaster channel metadata in topics - index mentioned users on-demand - better sync downtime handling

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