Knowing all this – it saddens me to see that the technodemocracy experiment imposed on Farcaster's flagship user base on day one preemptively barred people from participating in the vote over weird / stupid things they said years ago. They had no choice but to exit their keys, scramble to boot up another client, and work around new API restrictions just to get their normal experience back.
Honestly, not cool. Brutal first impression for an incoming steward of an aspiring credibly neutral protocol. "Step one" seriously undermined the premise of "Step two" and erased a lot of emergent culture and community goodwill. What's most jarring is that I think many people who were left out are quite conscious about CROPS values and would otherwise be quite aligned with Network State ideas, but they are needlessly fearful and resentful now.
To my Farcaster friends who were abruptly forced to leave, or are totally put off by this transition and/or its premise – I understand completely, and I'll miss you here. 💔
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