dannygladiolas on Nostr: Neither Warpcast nor Farcaster are truly decentralized. To obtain an identity, you ...

Neither Warpcast nor Farcaster are truly decentralized. To obtain an identity, you must go through an 'approved' organization. The smart contracts have admin permissions, meaning they are all owned by an admin account with extensive powers. You can find their contracts on their GitHub, they use the OpenZeppelin "ownable" library to have these admin privileges. What do the privileges allow them to do? They enable them to modify the contracts and determine who is permitted to create new accounts on the network, including which apps are allowed to use the network. In other words, it's simply a slow X.

The way it's built is actually worse than Mastodon. At least with Mastodon and Bluesky, anyone can create a server and join the network. Farcaster is more like a gustappo than DeSoMe.