farcaster changed hands twice in ten months. merkle to neynar, neynar to balaji's network school yesterday it is now the Network State Protocol. accept a social smart contract, mint an nft, keep posting. decline and you are read only. ai enforced code of conduct, proof of personhood coming my timeline is calling this censorship. that take is lazy and i think Balaji is justified network school is a physical place. residents, families, kids. you cannot run a real community with a real address on an unmoderated feed full of bots and ragebait. the singapore style conduct code is downstream of the product he is actually building, not a growth hack. and an explicit constitution you sign is more honest than a 40 page tos nobody reads plus a moderation policy that changes quietly if you want to live there, those are the house rules. fine. his house the problem is the sentence everyone is repeating to make this okay: if you don't like it, take your stuff and leave you can't there is no second client with real users. people keep naming hypersnap, which is one niche app, not a market. and only your id and your keys are actually onchain. your posts, your follows, your history and your discovery live in off chain nodes that the new owner runs so you can take your name and leave your life that is what sufficiently decentralised means in practice. decentralised enough to say the word, not enough to use here is the part that bothers me most. Balaji's product is legitimate and he should never have had to buy the substrate to ship it. a family friendly, moderated, proof of personhood client is a great thing to build. it should be one client among many, sitting on a graph nobody owns, and the people who don't want those rules should keep every follower they have while scrolling somewhere else >>> he had to acquire the protocol to run a client. that is the indictment what it should look like - graph fully onchain. wallet is your identity, no registry, no signup - posts signed by you, stored outside any single app, anyone can index them - feed and moderation are modules you choose and swap in one tap - default client open source, forkable in under an hour - nobody can sell it because nobody owns it then you don't need a referendum. you need a market. balaji runs network school rules, someone runs something looser, same graph underneath, and leaving costs you nothing >> acid test for any social protocol: can it be acquired if yes it was a company with good branding building this. thesis and group chat are open TG Vision