You can own your account, your keys, and your social graph.

But what happens when the app you use changes the rules overnight?

The Farcaster controversy is raising an important question for decentralized social platforms:

Who actually controls your ability to communicate?

Because decentralization should mean more than just owning your identity.
farcaster sold to network school and they *instantly* terminated my access for having said mean things to bots

Oct 16, 2026 Β· 7:55 PM UTC

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@ethstatus You either build another client on the Farcaster protocol, which is open source.

Or fork the protocol. x.com/thecompez/stat…
Say hello to first DC social network based on Hypersnap. Left side is WASM version. Right side is Desktop version on macOS.

Something huge is on the way for this great community...

Yes, you heard that right. Instead of the classic web, GenyCaster supports the WebAssembly.
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