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I don’t know what we’re doing with Faust but I’m doing my best But also I’ve never been more excited and I don’t know what this means
we have our monthly Community Call tomorrow at 12 noon pacific, happy to go deeper on any of this and answer questions. hope to see you there!
on adding more validators - our criteria for adding validators right now is simple: run snapchain, not be neynar and be in a geographical region different from the current validator set. why? prioritizing stability, decentralize 1 variable at time. top 2 priorities in order right now - geo and no majority. ---------- we want more validators and to move farcaster to be decentralized. we were advocating for it when we were running neynar's own validator node before the acquisition, during the transition, and once the deal had fully closed at the beginning of april. it's been a consistent position. what we can't do right now is onboard a validator running a modified version of snapchain. snapchain is a live consensus system. a validator running a fork, even a well-maintained one, creates risk we don't currently have systems set up to verify from the outside and don't have the dev capacity to take on right now. when something goes down on any part of the validator set, yes it is largely on the team running the validator node to address, but as the team stewarding the entire protocol, at the end of the day we're the ones accountable for the network. on the question of compatibility, yes, we've merged contributions that came through PRs from outside the core team, including from cassie. that's how open source is supposed to work and we're grateful for it. but merged contributions aren't the same as a guaranteed-compatiblity. we've also significantly edited and rewritten portions of what was submitted. the codebase running on mainnet today is not a 1:1 copy of any external PR, which is part of the work that we were willing (and excited) to take on as stewards of the protocol. honestly, this is part of why we encouraged alternative paths in the first place. we could see that our timelines and priorities weren't going to line up, and if someone wanted to move faster or in a different direction, experimenting in a different direction was the right path. that's how open protocols are supposed to work. we meant that genuinely. we do want farcaster to be fully decentralized eventually. we just disagree on the order of operations to get there. stability and growth of the network has to come first - a decentralized protocol that nobody uses doesn't serve anyone. to reiterate, our criteria for adding validators right now is simple: run snapchain, not be neynar and be in a geographical region different from the current validator set.
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PROPOSAL: move $snap rewards to be strictly hypersnap-only activity, whether user or developer (protocol is already like this with PoW).
I have no idea why anyone would want to use farcaster classic at this point. If you're an actual builder who wants to be a real profit generating company, why would you sign up to build on a chain with no native token economy? If you're a social network user, why would you want to post on a platform where there's no native token where you can have equity in the platform you're using every day? If you're into crypto as an ideology, why would you use a platform that isn't decentralized? At this point the thing is only what it does. Prioritize paid features where builders spend money to make apps with no users. Meanwhile hypersnap is rewarding users with a real equity share of the network right now.
a large batch of Farcaster Pro memberships expire tomorrow. we're taking our time to figure out what pro should look like from here. both the community and the team are in a different place than when pro launched, and we want to be very intentional about figuring out what the right mix of pro features is. the old pro features are still there if you feel those are integral to your fc experience and want to renew, but we don't expect everyone to. we have ideas we're excited about, including some highly requested features, but we're not rushing anything out. more to come! (fyi, as we roll out new things, like we've done with Spaces, users with pro will likely continue to be our first test group, but we'll be clear each time about what will be rolled out to everyone eventually.)