@davepeck USV wrote about what makes them excited about Farcaster. I note the reasoning applies almost identically to the ActivityPub Fediverse -- the benefits of open, decentralized protocols, a large ecosystem of developers etc. Except for the economic dimension: would be nice to have the integrated ability to send money, I agree. On the other hand, we here don't require messages to be public, which is required for a lot of use cases IMHO.
@J12t Yeah. It’s the same motivated reasoning I often encounter when reading about Web3 investments. It’s sorta ironic that they mention SMTP but neglect to note that it’s a blockchain-free open protocol that successfully forms a decentralized social network of, like, literally everyone on the Internet.