# Farcon Fireside

By [AVC](https://avc.xyz) · 2025-05-12

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The Farcaster community gets together every year in a community-produced event called [Farcon](https://farcon.xyz/). [It took place](https://farcon.nyc/) the first few days of May this year in Brooklyn. Dan Romero, co-founder and CEO of Farcaster, asked me to do a fireside chat with him and while I'm trying to do less of this sort of things these days, that was an invitation I could not resist.

Dan took me on a trip down career memory lane. The result is a powerful argument for protocols over platforms.

See for yourself. It's just over thirty minutes and there are quite a few highlights in here.

[![](https://paragraph.com/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqf_9NxhMfI)

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*Originally published on [AVC](https://avc.xyz/farcon-fireside)*