Daniel Fernandes
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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth.xyz
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Software Engineer interested in chip design, compchem/bio, crypto & DWeb tech. Also on Farcaster! (https://farcaster.xyz/dfern.eth)
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Just changed my handle — FYI I plan to use this did mostly to talk about atproto, ethereum, dweb, and other cypherpunk/privacy stuff. Still mainly on Farcaster, but I'll hang around for the BSKY airdrop🤞😏
For Farcaster Miniapps, it's iframes on Desktop/Mobile browsers and OS WebViews on the mobile app
Big fan of Logos/Status
The Base App is a Farcaster client. Someone told me there's a way to use social features without an FC account, but I haven't found it, and perhaps they were getting confused with Zora.
Oh nvm then. I'm curious what app he was thinking about.
The Base App certainly comes from Coinbase, Farcaster absolutely didn't come from Coinbase. Not sure if you or your friend was insinuating the latter.
There are campaign staff on here for politicians, I wouldn't say actual politicians are posting here in a personal capacity, maybe you can name 1 like AOC, even less so across the political spectrum, which makes it just inviable as a town square currently.
Murtaza Hussain & other Drop Site News folks. Athletes like Spencer Dinwiddie. Musicans like Waka Flocka. Even the dude who invented Spikeball.
This is just false. Like saying stablecoins will never find PMF.
Yes actually, more diverse userbase across the political spectrum in the US & more international users, especially in Nigeria, India, and Vietnam, who have earned their first crypto just from tips, not even buying crypto.
Bluesky's numbers are also declining, so I'm not sure what the point is of that attempted dunk.

It's not a betting market, it's a wallet, you can buy BTC/ETH/SOL. And it's a vibrant open social network for the masses, now that it's free to sign up.
Somewhat, but they "mean it" in the sense that they don't use Bitcoin for anything, not even identity. Pretty vacuous.
Nah, way more cypherpunks on there than here, similar to Nostr
Freedom of speech & freedom to transact belong together.
there was lost of consternation about this, but ultimately it became too confusing to explain to ppl, just like the difference between Bluesky & ATProto. You have to bite the bullet at one end and it's easier to explain later once they see the value.
My Hot takes are: (1) WaPo is attempting to overcorrect here for being owned by Bezos & (2) failing to do so because the real problem with Ring is that all inference is done on AWS...when instead they could allow for local inference & non-custodial data storage
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I don't think we can pitch decentralization as a solution to people who want a bad account banned because they're not trying to fix what they see in their own feeds, they're trying to control what I see in mine.

Fixing their own feeds is already accomplished by blocking and going on with your day
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A truly neutral platform will host people you consider evil. If it doesn't, it's not neutral - it just agrees with you.
They are! They post on actually decentralized platforms like Farcaster & Lens. ATProto doesn't have a monopoly on decentralization and given there are only 2 non-decentralized did's here, it's hard to argue we've reached an optimal state.
Thanks, was just about to ask how you were able to separate out the blobs
Wouldn't want all the cascoin to go missing after your mysterious demise in India
The POIDH (pics or it didn't happen) miniapp on Farcaster crowdfunded a bounty for the most kickflips in a minute and Dave here just broke the world record!
farcaster.xyz/davebachinsk...
Farcaster
A decentralized social network
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That's fair. I don't know why investing between Europe & US needs to be so difficult. It's a bit ridiculous this hasn't been solved already and more of an indictment of the existing system than Robinhood.