Sunday AMA — Farcaster protocol, purple app clients, crypto or anything else!
What do you do to balance everything you do for work / life?
What are yoour plans to promote client/host diversity after protocol V2 is out?
What are your plans for maintaining community health as the use base scales?
Can you check Telegram, please? DC isn't here on mac or android yet :(
How does Farcaster prioritize what to work on next? Sprints, roadmap tools, ceremonies?
What’s the vision for growing purple app and letting more & more folks on here? Appreciate the balance of quality and accessibility can be hard.
How big’s the company?? Seems like it’s 3 guys in an LA penthouse 😜🫶
When does this client no longer serve its purpose and either become its own company or get deprecated? How do you measure that?
What's the biggest strategic shift you've embraced since the start of FC?
How do you view lens and Farcaster together. Complimentary, competition or collaboration?
What parts of FC are on-chain? How will this evolve over the next 10 years?
beyond desktop and mobile, what are the next 1, 2, or 3 user interfaces farcaster will be in, on the future?
What are your plans on growing the team? Also, what role does Farcaster app ends up playing in the long term for the protocol?
What are the likely scenarios where Farcaster may end up like Twitter or like the current state of Email ecosystem? And how to avoid them?
if i'm in multiple communities built on FC protocol (i.e. separate clients), how do you imagine FC usernames to work? is my username / avatar / etc the same in all communities? or do i have a new username in each community?
Do you think we will see a nation state back a seriously funded attack against an L1 within the next five years? If so, who?
What's your favorite/most interesting interaction that has happened on Farcaster?
If you could get anybody to join Farcaster who would you choose?
How do you compare FC with App.net, which had similar goals?
Have you seen, and would you welcome machine to machine messaging? Do you anticipate a ‘payment’ cast-type?
How do you plan to manage growing the user-base while keeping the “close-knit” vibes of FC
when it's no longer feasible to do invite via twitter dm's, do you have any inklings to what process you're going to replace it with?
Thanks for doing the AMA. Learned a lot about Farcaster.
How do you decide between using a protocol (XMTP, Lens, WalletConnect, etc.) vs building yourself for various product features?
Also, what about tracking / analytics? Does the Farcaster iOS or desktop app have anything installed, and if so, what?