Farcaster with Varun Srinivasan

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Anna and Tarun meet with Varun Srinivasan, co-founder of Farcaster. They explore the Farcaster project, discussing the ideas that prompted its inception and what separates it from existing social media networks. The conversation explores the design space that Farcaster opens up for devs and the kinds of applications that can be built on top of it.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

• Farcaster
• Mastodon
• Diaspora
• Mastodon ActivityPub
• Secure Scuttlebutt
• Supercast
• Drakula
• What is Frames?
• Frames Spec
• Farcaster Frames: what you need to know
• Warpcast
• ZORA
• Surveycaster
• Blowfish
• OpenRank
• OpenRank Docs - Farcaster Integration
• Neynar

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