Farcaster was sold. Its community was not. The real test of an open network: can you leave without losing your social world? I dug into the acquisition, backlash, moderation defenses, and Hypersnap. One important detail: its hard-fork plan predates the acquisition announcement.

Farcaster Was Sold but Its Community Was NotNetwork School bought the app and development assets. The backlash is testing what an open social protocol actually lets its users keep.paragraph.com