Is Decentralized Social Media Worth the Effort? | EP 28

Imran and Qiao sit down with Dan Romero, the founder of Farcaster and Warpcast, for a deep dive into the world of decentralized social media. 

No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro
(00:38) Welcome to Good Game
(03:33) Imran's experience with Friend.tech so far
(04:46) Start of the interview with Dan
(05:15) Quick background on Dan
(05:34) What is decentralized social media and why is it important?
(07:21) An example of being deplatformed
(13:28) Who decides if a user is going to get banned by the rest of the network?
(19:28) Is there any client that can rival Warpcast today?
(20:31) The technical implementation of Farcaster
(32:48) Why move to OP stack?
(37:12) Why choose OP mainnet instead of launching your own chain?
(40:45) Qiao: What do you think of Friend.tech?
(45:20) How about Lens?
(49:18) Comparing Farcaster and Lens from a user's POV
(55:03) Imran: How do you view incentivized usage?
(58:51) Imran: Where do you see Warpcast/Farcast go to get the average normie to switch from Twitter to Warpcast?
(01:03:28) How do we think about Twitter-like scale?
(01:08:42) Dan's advice for founders
(01:10:00) Dan's #1 lesson he learned from building Farcaster
(01:11:53) Imran and Qiao's learnings
(01:15:02) Qiao interviewed Farcaster users
(01:32:02) The move to OP stack

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