# @timdaub: Kiwi News now supports direct Farcaster upvotes

Source: https://farcaster.xyz/timdaub.eth/0xea00c441
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/timdaub-Kiwi-News-now-supports-direct-Farcaster-upvotes?index=0x6834e3da8350f6fc31d072f5e214bcd488433ca5e100e72f187734a7439a664f21515030
Submitted by tim on 2025-05-26 UTC, 34 upvotes, 3 comments

## Comments

**pugson.eth**: make sure to let people leave comments using their farcaster wallets as well

**tim**: Yeah I'll try to figure this out. I just have to make sure that there can never be a protocol message that depends on a non protocol message. Bc if that's the case then it's going to get really confusing for other clients. 

Just to explain: The direct Farcaster mini app upvotes are literally just stored in a centralized database. If we wanted to make them available in a protocol then users would have to sign stuff again, which is slightly painful to setup.

Maybe the demo version is to just being able to upvote in a mini app, and for everything else we try to onboard you into the iOS app? Also feels a bit much for people who just wanna use WC...

**@ciefa.eth**: Thats awesome, lfg!