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If you just stick to the sites that are public domain without ads, it's an amazing place. And of course the "purple app" that everyone is talking about (https
by breck 4y ago
If you just stick to the sites that are public domain without ads, it's an amazing place.
And of course the "purple app" that everyone is talking about (https://www.farcaster.xyz/ https://www.farcaster.xyz/) is incredible.
- pc86 4y agoI mean that's sort of like saying that TV is great as long as you stick to public access channel available over-the-air from 10:30AM to noon. Isn't that describing an extremely small niche of website? Almost everything has ads. A lot of sites have login walls, many (maybe even most?) have paywalls, especially once you step away from personal blogs.
- djbusby 4y agoYou are the first person I've heard mention FarCaster.
- breck 4y agoDisclosure: I'm often wrong about these things. user: breck created: August 24, 2007
- djbusby 4y agoWhat? I don't care how old your account is. It's still first I've heard of a thing "everyone" is talking about. Which is a surprise right? Given how popular it is on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=FarCaster&sort=byDate&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- NoGravitas 4y agoLooks like a solution to the problem that ActivityPub doesn't do enough to enable blockchain scams.
- viridian 4y agoWhy not just use something running on the activity pub protocol? The fact that farcaster isnt even interoperable with various fediverse projects makes me doubt their intentions in this space.