I noticed recently that the founders of Farcaster left Farcaster.

It seems usage of Farcaster has dropped way, way down.

It is too bad — I thought they had some good ideas.

(Some of those ideas we should adopt into the Fediverse.)

#Farcaster

@reiver What ideas you think we should adopt?

I remember that someone tried to implement Frames in Fediverse, don't know what's the current status of that work.

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Frames is one of the Farcaster ideas that I like.

(Although, just to say it explicitly, there have been previous Frames-like things elsewhere before Frames.)

I liked that aspects of implementing them was very easy for a developer — ex: the usage of HTML <meta/> tags.

I like that you had identity without having to created yet another account. (The pub-key was more or less the identity.)

I liked that the output was "safe" from the usually web attack surface.

Etc.

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I liked that the UI showed a person's posts and their boosts in a different place.

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I liked their user-experience around groups.

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The Cast Actions seemed interesting, too.

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I liked that public-private key cryptography was built into the client.

I like that there is a distinction between user controlled keys and delegated keys.