I don't remember saying that about Farcaster. I think Farcaster is a bad idea, but its marketing at least feels more honest than Bluesky's.
It's very bad in the sense that it is expected that all "hubs" have to store all the data from everybody for a certain time, which is not very decentralizated.
To run an app on Farcaster you have to gather all that data yourself in your own hub and then connect that to your own server that translates it into feeds for your users via a normal internal API -- again, very centralizing.
It will probably end up like Bluesky: with a single company hosting everything, providing the main app and feeds that 99% of users will use. And maybe that's what they want? -- or what they can't avoid --, since the thing was created by a VC-funded company and is being pushed almost solely by that company.
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npub180…jh6w6
2024-05-21 00:25:51
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2024-05-21 00:25:51Event JSON
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