Nathan SchneiderAnyone here also trying #Farcaster? Curious about the comparison with Mastodon. Here, at least, the talk is about more than crypto.
yisiliu@ntnsndr would like an invitation to try it out ;))
Sanket Pathak@ntnsndr Recently got the invite. The overall experience is modern and polished. However, everyone on the platform is heavily invested in Web3. So, the feed is certainly filled with related topics. The benefit is, these folks are hands-on with the tech. So, you get to read deeper conversations on underlying tech and things beyond "crypto".
Having said that, I'm just 2 days old on the platform.
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Boris Mann@ntnsndr yep. Haven’t gone beyond the main app, so haven’t really ventured into the protocol experience.
It’s not federated so not really like Mastodon other than the feed and the post as primitives.
cpoetter@ntnsndr well, the talk is mostly crypto/web3 but not exclusively. growth of participants is slow (+5%/week) and curated.
the main app is polished and fast. there's also a growing ecosystem of apps. oh, and it's still on the Goerli testnet
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@ntnsndr just discovered it today - because a recruiter contacted me about it. I think public blockchain is a good way to manage a user registry although there are several DID experiments going on already - sounds like @okay_nick knows way more about this than me. However anything to do with blockchain presents a huge hurdle to many users especially when it comes to spending $ to use it.
@enmodo @okay_nick I signed up with no gas fees on my side, at least.
@ntnsndr @okay_nick interesting. Admittedly I didn't try it yet - perhaps they are paying people's gas fees at this time? That obviously doesn't scale to millions of users but with VC money fine for thousands (and at least ETH fees are way down now since the merge). Not that there aren't other blockchains that are almost free that could be used - and if it gets big enough they could have their own chain of Cosmos or something. I'll check it out.
@enmodo @okay_nick they are on testnet currently, so the cost is currently nonexistent.
@ntnsndr @okay_nick ah, that makes sense. And there are ETH compatible blockchains elsewhere with much greater performance - not that they couldn't eventually use a parachain/sidechain or whatever it is we will eventually have on ETH post 2.0 merge. For now I'm sure testnet is good enough to prove and build.
nickreynolds@ntnsndr presumably they're paying the gas costs for their users, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm not a huge fan of Farcaster because it's not build on open standards. They have their own ID system instead of using something like DIDs. AT_Protocol (from Bluesky) is a better solution, imo, but of course there's no reference implementation of that quite yet
aerique@ntnsndr I've been on it for a week now and I'm pleasantly surprised how well it works and how slick the app is.