Dan Romero: Farcaster, building a decentralized social network

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This is my conversation with Dan Romero about Farcaster - a decentralized social network being developed as an open protocol.

We talked about how product decisions in social networks have ripple effects on society, Farcaster’s strategy in the highly competitive world of social products, and Dan's personal philosophies around hiring and team building.

Timestamps:

0:00 intro

2:08 why this problem?

12:54 both product and protocol

23:41 the algorithmic feed

29:40 Farcaster’s strategy for competing with Twitter

1:00:52 approach to team building

1:14:41 how to use social networks, and meme’ing

Relevant links:

Dan Romero - https://twitter.com/dwr

Farcaster - https://www.farcaster.xyz/

Farcaster docs - https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol

Varun - https://twitter.com/varunsrin

Keybase - https://keybase.io/

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