Building At The Edges

Sufficient Decentralization — Dan Romero

Dec 8, 2022

55:09

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Farcaster: A Decentralized Social Network

4min

The Benefits of Centralization in Social Networks

4min

Ethereum Forecaster: A Decentralized Platform for Social Content

3min

The Role of Decentralized Networks in Building User-Friendly Experiences

4min

The Importance of Decentralization in Forecaster

3min

Farkaster: A Decentralized Social Network

4min

How to Be a Steward of the Protocol

3min

The Economic Model of FARCASTER

4min

10.

Ethereum: A Decentralized Protocol

4min

11.

Ethereum: A Decentralized Social Protocol

4min

12.

The Importance of Nouns

2min

13.

Farkaster: 4,500 Users

2min

14.

Building a Community on a Scale

6min

15.

The Importance of Curation in Early Community

3min

16.

How to Make More Than Five Invitations Available to People

3min

Dan Romero is the co-founder of Farcaster, the decentralized social network that many in crypto are turning to as a Twitter alternative. Jess and Dan explore what it means to be a decentralized social network in 2022, the critical differences between stewarding an open protocol and a client, the transition from users to customers, and how to build for revealed preference vs. stated preference.