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Yes. Appreciated your comment too! Helped me articulate the difference between Pilgrims and Puritans.

Now you can write long articles in Farcaster.

Pilgrims 1620, Puritans 1630. The distinction is actually quite interesting and can be explained in crypto terms. The Pilgrims were pure separatists, anarchists in a sense. Against the Church of England. The Puritans were more pragmatic non-separatists. The Church of England existed and they (at least nominally) accepted its authority, but wanted to found their own sub-branch as far away as possible. Roughly: Pilgrims were more like crypto-anarchists (who do not accept the legitimacy of the state) and Puritans more like crypto exchange founders (who accept the existence of the state, but want maximum freedom within the law). The pragmatic Puritans ultimately economically preponderated, because they could bridge between tyranny (the Church of England), civilization (their own City on a Hill), and anarchy (the American frontier). https://www.history.com/articles/pilgrims-puritans-differences

Dan is excited about Farcaster again and has been building a new Mac client with Claude Opus 5.5. Check it out!

We’re aware and will be updating. 🙂

Thanks for all the videos! We are reviewing them now and the @farcaster will handle payouts and winner announcements. https://farcaster.xyz/balajis.eth/0xfe595d98

Nice job by everyone. We are reviewing entries now. The @farcaster account will handle payouts and announce winners. https://farcaster.xyz/balajis.eth/0x540ad028

We also received 20+ entries for the Norbert Elias civility prize and are reviewing those too. @farcaster will handle the payouts and announce the winners. https://farcaster.xyz/balajis.eth/0x376e0450

Great work by all of you! We received 20+ entries for the client prize and are reviewing them now. The @farcaster account will announce the winners.

Could be a bug; if so please email support with instructions to reproduce. May also be due to the fact that some features (like DM) aren’t yet implemented at protocol level. That’s what we inherited and it will take time to improve (with no guarantee of any particular feature). If an account is blocked for abuse, that would be at client or API layer (Neynar), but not protocol. They should still be able to read everything and submit valid messages. Other clients just may not show them. But we'll look into this, as there are gradations here. Ultimately, we do want other clients. Because we do want to set our own community norms, but also want others to set theirs. See prize on this here: https://farcaster.xyz/balajis.eth/0x50184b62