Farcaster is forking! As a user, what does this mean? - Your account will continue to stay valid. Our side of the fork is going to make that indefinite. No more annual storage subscriptions, no casts lost to the ether, no limits on follows. - Long casts, more embeds by default, and lowest fee possible swaps in wallet. Get what Neynar's billing you with Farcaster Pro, for free. As a dev, what does this mean? - The protocol fork will produce two competing chains: one, with validators comprised of strictly neynar and uno (as neynar controls who can peer), the other, free to join by anyone - The different repositories will diverge in features over time, this will mean mini apps and integrations will start to misbehave for one side of the fork. Not right away, but over time. Why? Neynar has repeatedly abused their new power, and is lying to users by telling them they are upholding farcaster as a decentralized network. It is not. Validators are controlled by them. Who? Neynar bought farcaster's domains and infra from Merkle. If a protocol is truly decentralized, they don't get to have an inequal say. We're going to prove that. When? At the time of the upcoming network fork. Token? There's open suggestions and discussions in https://github.com/farcasterorg. Come join us!

Hypersnap lets you have Farcaster Pro features for free. Speak with your wallets – stop propping up a company that refuses to work with community.

farcaster classic is not launching a token. the token talk circulating right now is tied to hypersnap, a fork of snapchain, both participants of the farcaster protocol. the hypersnap team has been referring to the token as a farcaster token, because it is a farcaster token. understandably, this has caused confusion, because neynar refers only to their side of the fork as farcaster, and yet they have none of the original protocol dev team. to reduce confusion, when we say "farcaster" we mean the ecosystem and protocol. when we say "farcaster classic", we mean the side of the fork neynar maintains. consider the history of eth and eth classic, and this POV will make sense. farcaster token is coming this month. 🫡

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