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dwr updatesCan you solve spam at the protocol-level?
Assumption: a credibly neutral decentralized social networking protocol is desirable.In order to achieve "credibly neutral decentralization" for the protocol data it must be 1) replicated across many servers / nodes 2) user-controlled, i.e. the user does not have to rely on any other party to add / remove messages to the protocol 3) sign ups are permissionless.This means that anyone (or AI) can sign up for an account and post whatever they want at the protocol level. Any compromise on this ne...
dwr updatesWhat does sufficient decentralization mean?
I often see people say Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized". You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post:A social network achieves sufficient decentralization if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it. This implies that users can always reach their audience, which can only be true if developers can build many clients on the network...
dwr updatesGo directly to jail
dwr updatesCan you solve spam at the protocol-level?
Assumption: a credibly neutral decentralized social networking protocol is desirable.In order to achieve "credibly neutral decentralization" for the protocol data it must be 1) replicated across many servers / nodes 2) user-controlled, i.e. the user does not have to rely on any other party to add / remove messages to the protocol 3) sign ups are permissionless.This means that anyone (or AI) can sign up for an account and post whatever they want at the protocol level. Any compromise on this ne...
dwr updatesWhat does sufficient decentralization mean?
I often see people say Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized". You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post:A social network achieves sufficient decentralization if two users can find each other and communicate, even if the rest of the network wants to prevent it. This implies that users can always reach their audience, which can only be true if developers can build many clients on the network...
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1. Lack of focus is kills startups; the number of things you can work on pre-product market fit is finite
2. Settings after often (but not always) a sign of underdeveloped product thinking
3. Most users don't want settings; they don't want to do work; it should just work out of the box; finding the right default is critical
4. Giving power users a setting means you'll get less feedback if the default isn't working, since average users don't complain, they just stop using the app
5. Power users often want very different things than average users
6. 99% of new features should be focused on the solving the existential problem. Farcaster existential issue is growing daily active users, which means figuring out the right defaults. And upstream of growing daily active users is growing the supply of interesting and entertaining content.
7. Part of prioritization is making the right investments in scalability, e.g. why we have some people working on Hubs right now
1. Lack of focus is kills startups; the number of things you can work on pre-product market fit is finite
2. Settings after often (but not always) a sign of underdeveloped product thinking
3. Most users don't want settings; they don't want to do work; it should just work out of the box; finding the right default is critical
4. Giving power users a setting means you'll get less feedback if the default isn't working, since average users don't complain, they just stop using the app
5. Power users often want very different things than average users
6. 99% of new features should be focused on the solving the existential problem. Farcaster existential issue is growing daily active users, which means figuring out the right defaults. And upstream of growing daily active users is growing the supply of interesting and entertaining content.
7. Part of prioritization is making the right investments in scalability, e.g. why we have some people working on Hubs right now
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