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Key Takeaways
Experiment with content a lot to find what engages your audience. Newsletters, memes, podcasts, art, memecoins, shitposts, hot takes, giveaways, doubtcasting, livestreams, try it all and see what hits.
$DEGEN is the bluechip memecoin of Farcaster. Tip it, buy it, LP it, and enjoyy.
Frames are small apps that run inside of casts. They supercharge engagement for creators and builders and make the Farcaster content feed even more interactive for users!
Alternative clients like Supercast give tools for power creators, enabling thread writing, cast scheduling, account switching and more!
Despite the reputation mods have as power-hungry basement dwellers, channel leads are happy to work with you to drive more attention to your announcements if you coordinate with them. @frodo reached out to me about his puzzle competition and I offered the /onchain-gaming channel as a place to concentrate attention in public and get more marketing power vs posting it in a brand-new channel with no audience.
This police report (full pdf in replies) was just leaked to me. I didn’t do it. I’M PUTTING UP 10 ETH OF MY OWN MONEY TO THE FIRST PERSON/TEAM WHO CAN SOLVE THIS MURDER. Mint your NFTs at https://findmykiller.xyz, unravel this mystery, and clear my name. #FMK #FreeFrodo https://findmykiller.xyz
Channel hosts can pin posts to spotlight them for people coming to a channel, guaranteeing that the post will be seen by everyone coming to that channel. I strongly recommend working with people with existing large channels in addition to building your own channel audience.
Cooperation > competition or as @nonlinear says:
i would much rather collaborate than compete. however—if you choose competition: bring it. we'll win or die trying
Make sure to engage with people who earnestly engage with you. In the algorithmic pecking order, comments go farther than you'd think, especially if it's the first comment and it results in a comment chain of replies.
Comments > recasts > likesEngage with people who engage with you, give them fast replies and like their replies back, dopamine feels good! If you have some engagement history, you can tip $DEGEN on Farcaster, but you will get higher quality replies without mentioning that up-front.
Remember your ABCs and let your audience reveal their preferences to you.
Always
Be
Casting
You can start a new conversation using someone's cast as a prompt by quote casting them, it's not always just blatant engagement farming! Comment replies are 1-to-1 whereas a quote cast is 1-to-many. Your account engagement only counts for Active Badge and $DEGEN when you are the root caster, the one starting the conversation.
As I shared previously,
Takeaways from my personal experiments for social media success on Farcaster.
Get other folks tangled in your web of brilliance early on.
More, Better, and Iterated Ideas: Incorporating others in your project means a shitload of fresh and dope ideas. You get different inputs and perspectives, ramping quality up to another level.
Ownership Feeling: When people get involved early, they feel like it's their baby too. It's like a community garden of creativity where everyone plants their seeds of genius.
Context Absorption: Sharing early drafts means folks can absorb the context better. It's like giving their brains a git diff to more easily track the progression and appreciate the final product even more.
A great way to boost engagement is to wrap your cutting witicisms as visual memes. Memes are cultural artifacts which serve as your Proof of Culture, PoC. How quickly and how well can you recontextualize issues, problems, and talking points in recognizable templates for easy consumption?
Memes are cultural artifacts which serve as your Proof of Culture, PoC. How funny can you be while recontextualizing issues, problems, and talking points in recognizable templates for easy consumption?
this boomer meme's for you @greyseymour https://i.imgur.com/4YsJud7.png
Wrap ideas and comment replies in a visual meme for a boost on social media. My personal meme stack is imgflip for adding text + GIMP for customizing images. From the last year of being online, I can create a meme comment reply in under 2 minutes. I use a nonstandard font as a bit of a signature as well, but that's mostly just preference.
Creating onchain artifacts like Zora NFT mints, Paragraph posts, and sound NFTs gives fans a way to tip for content they enjoy. Mint your memes as Zora mints, put your podcasts onchain like gmfarcaster, create a supporter subscription through Hypersub! Keep creating and give people ways to support your creativity.
Collecting Paragraph posts is a great way to tip the author of the article and indicate your superfan status with onchain history. And collecting after reading doesn't put the reader in the painful position of trying to guess which content is worth paying for. If you found this post value-ful, please collect it.
Total side note, check out the referral fees-paid dashboard from @pixel on Farcaster https://dune.com/0xRob/referral-market
$DEGEN is the 2nd generation Farcaster-native memecoin. Following in the wake of fizzled-out $POINTS, $WOWOW, and $FARTS, $DEGEN launched with social and LP incentives and has been widely adopted across the Farcaster ecosystem. It integrated with projects like Ponder, Bountybot, Launch, Perl, and more.
💰🚀 The weekly survey winner has been drawn! Congratulations to @dish for his thoughtful response. 50,000 $DEGEN was delivered to your connected wallet. Now an important question - how much should we give away next week? Tell us below ⬇️ https://www.weponder.io/farcaster/surveys/267
On the social side, users tip each other with messages that include XXX $degen. Tips are points until consolidated in airdrops, distributed seasonally so far. Visit https://www.degen.tips/airdrop2/season2 and check the details to see your daily tipping balance, based on your engagement on Farcaster.
Your connected wallet must hold a minimum of 10k $DEGEN to be eligible to receive $DEGEN tips.
Respond to casts you like with text that includes XXX $DEGEN (500 $DEGEN for example) to tip other users.
DO tell people why your tipping them, it's much more value-ful
that's awesome fam! 2222 $degen for bettering yourself
DON'T use $DEGEN for low-quality engagement farming
Buy $DEGEN on BASE: the easiest method is to onramp fiat directly to BASE L2 from Coinbase. Get it from Uniswap v3 or the new Aerodrome pool.
You can LP $DEGEN for points and receive an airdrop in the future, the Uniswap LP incentives program runs until July 8 2024.
Check out the /degen channel for announcements from founder @jacek and to find other users, builders, and fans.
Here's my favorite way to use Degen, get people posting interesting things:
Happy Valentines gamers, I'm tipping $degen today, shill me your favorite gaming-related thing you've created, or most impressive gaming accomplishment
Frames are small apps that run inside of casts. Interactive off-site content, basically telegram/discord bots that interface with users within a single cast. The bot commands are exposed for users to interact with as buttons. The frame gets to use some data from its server + data about the user interacting allowing for a personalized, interactive feed.
Check out Packy McCormick's article explaining in more detail why Farcaster's Very Small Apps are a Very Big Deal.
People have sold Girl Scout Cookies, minted NFTs, played games, and more using frames. The user interface offered by frames consists of pictures, usually with text, and up to four buttons for user interactions.
We've seen five general categories of frames so far:
Marketing/Growth hacking (e.g. PFP remix, cast2mint)
Action Links (i.e. skip off-site conversion funnel)
Crypto distribution channel (e.g. tipping, ecommerce)
Advanced social media posts (e.g. polls, token-gated content)
Games and Fun (e.g. YOINK)
I've categorized 100s of Frames over the past month so you don't have to! 😅 Here are the 5 Categories that all Frames fall into! 📋 Join /topframes for more Frame alpha next week... 👀 https://frames.neynar.com/f/8ae07c8c/b06cee80
Frames supercharge app engagement and make it easier for devs to interact with their users by putting the interactivity in the Farcaster feed. Use your apps without leaving the feed! Teachnically-minded folks can get started building frames with @df's fantastic repo awesome-frames on GitHub.
All the best Farcaster Frames resources in one place - davidfurlong/awesome-frames
Frame devs should check out /frames and /top-frames for inspiration and /frame-devs and /frames-hackathon for assistance.
Nascent frameworks are in use already like frames.js, Frog.fm, and Neynar's No-Code Frame Studio.
Farcaster is a "sufficiently decentralized" network which means Dan has been hammering that Warpcast will make opinionated choices and that if we're unsatisfied with the answers, "it's an opportunity for alternative clients."
We get a lot of requests for: - video / audio - better animated gifs - nicer image UX - polls - bookmarks All of these features would make Warpcast better, but none of them are going to unlock product-market fit. So we’re focused on channels since they are a new primitive. (Opportunity for other clients!)
The Warpcast team is building Warpcast to have great UX for 90% of users. They are leaving the hard to do, tricky, or not-likely-to-be-used-by-many features to other devs to build. So alternate clients like Supercast, Crew, and Herocast are building those features for those that need them.
Supercast killer features
Multi-accounting on 1 device + account switching
Gif uploads
Threads
Cast scheduling
Polls
Crew killer feature
Shared access to accounts (brands)
Herocast killer features
FOSS Farcaster client
Non-custodial shared access to accounts via Hats Protocol
Polls are not native in Warpcaster and require frames to run within one cast. Ponder is a great tool for gathering qualitative sentiment from an audience in a frame, and you can token gate responses via ERC20s and ERC721s.
Warpcast search is pretty good but anyone who's used Twitter advanced search is left wanting. Searchcaster.xyz allows you to filter by caster so rather than finding all the "status" posts and scrolling through looking for Dan's , I can search for "status" and require the caster be @dwr.eth to get all Dan's thoughts on status-seeking monkeys.
status thing. 'Omg X person follows me! They love me!' And 'Omg Y person unfollowed me, they hate me now!' And when your a big account, who knows what will trigger someone to try ruin your life for a perceived insult.
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most comprehensive guide on improving my efficacy on farcaster, actionable, hence 400 $degen
thanks @antaur, appreciate the vote of confidence!
Informative article now i had full idea about the devs power on base chain keep going boss
Thanks for collecting @katwolfie.eth 🙏 What was so valueful about the article for you? https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/unlocking-potential-on-farcaster
I needed to add it here. I've been collecting content all year to help guide newbies 💜 https://gallery.so/katwolfie/galleries/2grAHuCQEy1EjDrcXeAK8NuqKmm
That's awesome! I've got 2 others in the same vein here (fix link for filtered view) https:// paragraph .xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/category/web3%20social
Thank you! Just subbed. I'll definitely have to read through more
Unlocking the potential of Farcaster. Great article from the resources section of farther.social by @ispeaknerd.eth Here is a summary: - Engagement techniques and finding your own voice. Comments take you farther than a simple like or recast. Comment > Recast > Like - Experiment with different types of casts and measure your engagement. See what works and what doesn't. - Create your own channel or ask owners to pin your content, build, art, etc. What are your thoughts on tipping low quality casts?
post profile reivew mega thread on learnings almost 70 profiles reviewed ranging in follower count from double to six digits. feedback has officially been sent to everyone who requested it. except for a few very niche cases, everyone's feedback fit into one of 9 broad categories thread below for the /growth curious
tag people into relevant conversations - whether it's someone high profile or a friend, this is a very easy way to make sure a conversation doesn't dead end and continues on to give value beyond simple replies like "thanks" or "cool"
cast in a mix of channels - large channels can give distribution, but small channels give focused attention. If you're only casting in one type you're likely to either get lost in the mix or never reach scale of audience respectively
more thoughtful replies - I hadn't considered this one until the review process, but I suspect tipping has let people offload cognitive work to monetary reward. But here's the thing - it's not the same. Even if you're going to tip (and feel free, this is not a stop tipping rn cast), helping people understand why or giving constructive feedback will generally speaking be well received and help gain you followers/reach
Solid point, but more often than not casts are hidden on channels, even more so for users without a power badge. What's your advice for new users casting in channels - or is their only option to live in the replies?
idk @cameron just isn't that cool of a dude
@cameron takes his shirt off on stream and swears on the internet there literally isn't anything cooler
had to come to check what context this was spoken in he's not cool, he's warm
thanks (cool)
*implicit permission to tag @dawufi in everything, got it*
go off queen
Cool
Thanks
a thread for the ages. masterful wuffing here 👏🏻
wuf <3
ok bookmarked
thats wtf is up
can i get a late review? how do i grow dawufi just tell me i need that sweet engagement (and moxie free money)
cc @metamask
just saw this -- thanks for the tag!!
thanks, cool
@cameron @ispeaknerd.eth Did u do this
Danke 🥶
yea (thanks) - cool
Your feedback was well received and deserves some magic internet money 10000 $degen
Ur all the mim I need 🫂
ok send it back then
Awesome thread. Seems like most of us need to step up our game 🔥
Only if you want to! This was for people who want to increase their reach, nothing wrong with having a small audience if you prefer it :)
💯 that's right, not everyone needs (nor wants) a spotlight !
You’re a king. People complain with me about engagement all the time.. I go to their profile and after 3 seconds i think “no wonder you get no engagement” But i never give them actual feedback cause i dont wanna offend or roast anyone.. When you give unsolicited advice thats how they take it But you did a smart thing cause you asked who wants constructive feedback Those people will grow for sure.
1000 $degen for a thoughtful, engaging, and actionable thread This is the type of Farcaster I want to see in the world. Casts that recognize a desire (ie how to increase engagement) but do so in a mindful way that biases for quality and authenticity over engagement farming and algo hacking
Noice thread mate 96 $degen
Have been really impressed with @fun’s weekly progress with Farcaster Studio. If you’re looking to learn more about your account, check it out. https://farcasterstudio.com
thank you dan!!! much appreciated 🥹🫂
@fun i've written some articles that would be good reading for anyone taking you up on that offer! 1. https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/acculturate-to-accelerate-on-farcaster 2. https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/unlocking-potential-on-farcaster 3. https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/fk-around-and-find-out
and i link it from my articles but @cameron's "Fastrope into Farcaster" is still golden https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0xbacd31bd
dood has been grinding cheers @fun
thank you alec!
we all use neynar but everyone follows how you use it. major props
Indeed one of the best hypersub integrations out there, you don’t even know you’re using hypersub, it’s that good!
Interesting. I lost my power badge last week when I was becoming more active on the timeline the weeks before. 🤷♂️
Thank you for sharing ♥️✨ I need to try it out
Just trying it out for the first time now, seems pretty useful at first glance! Cool app @fun
thank you aaron!! love your photos
<3 <3 <3
Oh nice /daily-art-mint is in here too - I had no idea!
very impressive! just signed in!
You recommend me to give access to add casts, like, edit profile etc!!?????
it doesnt ask for permission to cast or edit profile :) read only permissions right now
Making a list of the best blog posts and videos about Farcaster. Please reply with your suggestions for degen tips. <3
@raven50mm has been creating a lot of educational Farcaster videos!
🏄🏽🤘🏽 thanks for the tag Chic! Gm 🫡 check out /50mm-collective for more https://zora.co/collect/base:0x704b037190922d805a89735b67ea02a0fd020520/2
An awesome tip of the hat to @ispeaknerd.eth for https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/acculturate-to-accelerate-on-farcaster?referrer=0x3eefaa9d6e2ab7972c1001d41c82bb4881389257
ty! 100 degen
Thanks Taylor! glad it was valueful for you!
other articles: making farcaster content https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/unlocking-potential-on-farcaster?referrer=0x3eEFAa9d6e2ab7972C1001D41C82BB4881389257
nice! 100 degen
FC + @paragraph https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/where-the-web3-readers-are?referrer=0x3eEFAa9d6e2ab7972C1001D41C82BB4881389257
customizability (and quasi-clients h/t @cameron) with frames + cast actions https://paragraph.xyz/@ispeaknerd.eth/customization-is-coming?referrer=0x3eEFAa9d6e2ab7972C1001D41C82BB4881389257
Also, https://youtu.be/kOBqav5Ysv4?si=6FYUXh-kGAxaWy6r is just nifty
100 degen thank you
Here’s my first one @gigamesh 🚀 https://zora.co/collect/base:0x8210e9a765287293bba72242df1ebea01a2084d9/1
This is my go-to article for helping friends I invite onboard make sense of engagements and interactions on Farcaster. https://paragraph.xyz/@bitfloorsghost/making-a-name-for-yourself-on-farcaster?referrer=0xa312a2a835bdcda893020ce23871470ffd26b990
I think it is hard and useful work 100 $degen
much appreciated!
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https://warpcast.com/endureandsurvive.eth/0x847858a0 👌