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Also does this coinbase thing claim (/pretend) to be in any way decentralised? Is there centralised moderation? What is required for sign up? Email/phone number/coinbase account?

If the latter then it's really horribly tied with ID. I suppose it's not aiming to be nostr.

It's like the worst aspects of Nostr (saying the price of things) without any of the interesting bits.

goatmeal 5mo ago

the base wallet is just a rebranding of coinbase wallet. it's technically a self-custody wallet that supports seed phrases. it will pressure you into using an EVM network called Base which, despite being centralized, does inherit an acceptable amount of security from the ethereum network on account of being an OP stack rollup. it supports more networks as well. base wallet will also pressure you into using passkeys instead of seed phrases.

smart contracts and protocols that you interact with using wallets such as base are not guaranteed to be decentralized. but to be fair, the b*tcoin stuff like boltz isn't decentralized either. glass houses and that.

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7fqx 5mo ago 💬 2

I was more thinking the social media aspect of it (I don't really understand the stuff you mentioned lol). Is the moderation centralised? I imagine so. What are their moderation policies? That I don't know, but I imagine it exists and is probably the same as/similar to most social media..?

goatmeal 5mo ago 💬 1

the base app will use farcaster for microblogging and xmtp for instant messaging

farcaster has sections of its microblogging universe that can be carved out and controlled by moderators

7fqx 5mo ago

Wait, are you saying the coinbase social app is running on farcaster? 🤔

7fqx 5mo ago

I just looked this up, seems to be the case