Honestly, I think people genuinely want something like Kiwi here, a project dedicated to serving people who like to read and write. But then their interests have been so captured by the Farcaster network effects that all they can think of is how to better read on Warpcast. Really, what is fairer to writers and readers than actually sending users out to writers‘ sites through a link on an open source protocol? A third party dev could build „Together“ through Kiwi. I‘m doubtful whether it can be built through FC or by lobbying WC development. Are people who are asking for a niche reading app ignorant of Merkle‘s raise? They‘ll have to 2-10x the 150M raised, and it‘s simply not going to happen by catering to the handful of crypto writers! I‘m not saying this to diss Ccarella or Ted, but this to me is just a ground truth as of now. There would have to exist a new and undiscovered social phenomenon with people writing and reading content online at a mass scale. As bad as it sounds, most people are NPCs. They doom scroll TikTok. They don‘t read. All I can infer from the public information I have is that the WC mandate is to grow at all costs, kinda like Bluesky does. Otherwise how can they survive and ask for their next check?
I'd be happy to give it a try once it's out. Wondering how it works from the legal POV - some authors make money by showing ads or getting subscriptions, so wondering if you can show their work without asking for permission? Probably could be covered by working with one specific app like Paragraph that would add it to their T&C and find a way to make subscriptions and mints easy via this mini app.
I hope someone actually builds this!!!