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Re:Your account is permanently suspended by breck on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:31AM (#33273639)
If you just stick to the sites that are public domain without ads, it's an amazing place.

And of course the "purple app" that everyone is talking about (https://www.farcaster.xyz/) is incredible.

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Re:Your account is permanently suspended by pc86 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:08AM (#33274114)
I mean that's sort of like saying that TV is great as long as you stick to public access channel available over-the-air from 10:30AM to noon. Isn't that describing an extremely small niche of website? Almost everything has ads. A lot of sites have login walls, many (maybe even most?) have paywalls, especially once you step away from personal blogs.
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Re:Your account is permanently suspended by djbusby on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:15AM (#33274205)
You are the first person I've heard mention FarCaster.
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Re:Your account is permanently suspended by breck on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:26AM (#33275171)
Disclosure: I'm often wrong about these things.

    user: breck
    created: August 24, 2007
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Re:Your account is permanently suspended by djbusby on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:22PM (#33276998)
What? I don't care how old your account is. It's still first I've heard of a thing "everyone" is talking about.

Which is a surprise right? Given how popular it is on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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Re:Your account is permanently suspended by NoGravitas on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:51PM (#33280516)
Looks like a solution to the problem that ActivityPub doesn't do enough to enable blockchain scams.
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Re:Your account is permanently suspended by viridian on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:40PM (#33278072)
Why not just use something running on the activity pub protocol? The fact that farcaster isnt even interoperable with various fediverse projects makes me doubt their intentions in this space.
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