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Inspired by @mazmhussain's very well written article "A View from Far(caster) Afield", what was originally going to be a simple collection of screenshots regarding Power Badges and Channel moderation settings, has turned into a 'short' story of my experience using Farcaster over the past 6 months. It is still mostly focused on Cast visibility (not Reply visibility).
This is likely all old news to the devs working on FC and small group of OG members, but I believe the vast majority of current users have not been properly informed of the way this platform works.
{Updates at the very bottom. Drastic recent changes have made most of this writing irrelevant - read if you like the history, otherwise skip to the final Oct 12 update for current changes}
Power Badges have been removed from the UI, but still exist in the background, and still affect Cast visibility in almost every channel.
This week there are 1847 PB holders.
We all wait for that small group to start a conversation, so the badgeless can reply.
Even casters who are whitelisted by @automod and @botornot, who receive auto-likes from these mod bots, are not visible. Default PB settings overrules all.
Your original casts will only be seen by pre-existing followers, unless you find a very rare exception to the current standard.
(skip this part if you don't care about me, there are more pictures you can look at lower down)
I am a traditional social media avoider, but I am obsessed with blockchain, in particular the ETH ecosystem. I was early to lens but never used it, a little late to Farcaster (FID 300k), and somehow it hooked me. As I watched many high profile community members switch from X to FC, and considering I am trying to transition my career path into this industry, I decided this may be a good onchain alternative to LinkedIn/X. A crypto native place to network and find opportunities, or at the very least make friends with other like minded (and differently minded) people around the world.
However, since joining Farcaster via Warpcast about 6 months ago, I have received close to 0 views or interactions on original casts. (Until very recently, now I get some interaction from my small circle of ~180 followers).
I wasn't sure why; Do people only like, reply, and follow their closest inner circle? Are there filters hiding my casts?
The most frustrating part imo, is the lack of indication regarding whether or not you are being hidden. When logged in on your own account, everything looks as though it's working - I cast, it shows up in the feed .. but no one interacts with it. My first original cast was in /six, no one interacted. I tried in /tabletop, no one interacted. I tried in /data, no one interacted. I tried in /higher, no one interacted. These were all thoughtful casts I put effort into - I have literally never written a cast that could be misconstrued as spam.
I earned my first few followers through replies, and a few Direct Casts asking for support. When I created my second high effort /higher themed mint, and it got yet again 0 views, I took to the DCs. Many had set DCs to friends-only, but I was able to chat with a few: "hey I worked on this for hours, would appreciate if you had a peek" kind of thing.
The few I spoke with were friendly and supportive. To my surprise, I got an immediate reply from @martin, who informed me I was in fact being hidden. He whitelisted me on automod, and all was well. (I've said thank you a million times and I'll say it again, tyvm)
I'm not sure for exactly how long all was well, or if it ever actually was, because now (as seen in fig 1 above) even though I get auto-liked by automod, my casts are hidden.
Note: We are talking about original Casts being hidden, not Replies.
Replies always show unless you are flagged as a bot or spammer, as far as I know.
This backstory is important to show how impossible it is for a normal user to figure out why they are nerfed, or even to notice that they are nerfed at all (considering you always see your own casts, with no notice that you are being hidden from others).
I assumed this automod filter might be the norm for most channels, so I spent most of my time restricting myself to /higher, without knowing how to tell which other channels I could cast in. Eventually /higher-athletics started a Lifting Challenge I wanted to participate in, so I DC'd @fffflood to ask for whitelist there. He investigated and got back to me: "there are no restrictions on the higher athletics channel account for any user so all people who post are the same."
Alarm bells.
This was 10 days ago, and led me to investigate more thoroughly.
Lets get on with the more recent findings. Over the past few days I have done a bunch of testing with the help of @0xmaru, most of the following casts, images, videos, are from her and I.
It is very easy to test this yourself: Simply cast in a channel, then copy/paste the url of that channel into a different browser (or log out of your current session). It's easiest using 2 browsers so you can line up the timelines and compare. If you have a PB, everything will be normal. If you don't have a PB, I bet you will notice SOMETHING IS MISSING from the "logged out" timeline.
*paragraph.xyz doesn't do much with video, and warpcast embeds are not that sexy either*
These two videos compare a logged-out Warpcast timeline, to a logged-out Recaster timeline:
from warpcast logout
↑ Warpcast feed shows only PB users.
from recaster
↑ Recaster feed includes badgeless users.
More tests:
In /higher I get auto-liked by @automod, but I am still hidden from both Main and Recent
In /farplanter I get auto-liked by @botornot, but I am still hidden from both Main and Recent
In /higher-athletics where they believe there are no restrictions, I am hidden from both Main and Recent
In /dev-memes I DO show on Main but hidden from Recent
Every other channel I've tested, I am hidden from both views
While writing this it was brought to my attention by @Pichi that if a channel is configured with the default "Warpcast sort" our messages "compete to be seen with others and your ranking in the Warpcast stack matters". And this was quickly confirmed "Correct" by @dwr.
I don’t know the channels you tested in but the owner can choose chronological reverse or Warpcast sort. If it’s Warpcast sort, you are then fighting for space on the main feed with everyone and even with a “like” from the moderation bots you still compete to be seen with others and your ranking in the Warpcast stack matters. This is my observation. I have over 10 channels set to different modes so I can run these tests.
Digging into the docs and settings, I agree this is correct, but simultaneously it is no different from what I've been saying: "the non PBs are hidden".
(Couldn't find anything about "Warpcast stack" specifically, but I believe we're talking about "Priority mode" and the "Main feed algo".)
Possibly we are talking about this dune chart by @ilemi with multiple tiers of user quality, but I haven't found any official docs on the subject, and I believe Power Badges are still the ultimate cast filtration tool (or, cast-ration tool? haha).
These docs and our experience confirm that all channels using the default sorting settings, and all accounts using default priority mode settings, will only ever see casts from: People you already follow, and people with Power Badge (currently 1847 people).
With FIDs above 835k now, and only 1847 PB holders, literally 99.77% of users potential original casts are hidden. (Obviously a ton of those are actually bots, spammers, scammers, people we genuinely don't want to see - but the numbers do seem a little extreme do they not?)
This level of filtration is unique to Warpcast. You can change the default settings in Warpcast (although I have tried this, and still have yet to find a badgeless caster who I don't already follow in any of the channels I frequent), or you can use another client, but both of these options only change what you see - neither strategy affects your exposure to others.
If you want to have a good time around here, Get bootstrapped. If you are a new user, know that it is not an even playing field out there. The recommended path to growth here is to use external resources: other platforms, other friend groups, have a large account introduce you, etc. Every new user here is treated as an uninteresting spammer until they get boosted into the coveted 0.23% PB group, or somehow earn a large enough follower count that they still get good exposure without a PB. Otherwise you will be casting into a void without knowing it.
I may be unique in my positioning as a TradSoc avoider / crypto lover, I do not have large followings on any traditional social media platforms because I have actively avoided them over the years. Following and participating in the blockchain space for more than 7 years, I hoped this would be a place where I fit in easily. And I do.. But for the past 6 months I've been casting, almost no one has seen me. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I deserve to be in the PB group, I don't think I am in the top fraction of a single percent of crypto natives (although my normie friends say I am 🙂). There are two big projects I've been working on that I would love to launch here via Farcaster, in my own channel and in partnership with another channel here - but now realizing how 'censored' I have been - I am starting to question if this is the right place or not.
Intuition would tell most people: If you're not getting interactions on your casts, they must be low quality, and you must increase the quality of your output to get noticed. That is not the way things work here. You are guilty until proven innocent, and the proof does not come from better casting, it comes from networking outside of casting (although no FC-knight will pull you up from the trenches unless you are producing quality, so yes quality is still necessary).
The result of this tiny in-group and massive out-group dynamic is that many many MANY honest genuine good humans out there are feeling rejected, dejected, and confused as to why no one likes them.
I'm not saying I deserve a PB, or that I deserve an astronomical follower count, but damn it would be nice to at least have equal visibility when I put efforts into a cast, a mint, a project launch, etc.
As promised a few extra resources and links:
Warpcast blog: link
Check Power Badge: cast action link
Farcaster Dune Charts: pixelhack, saxophones, ilemi, jkavithamahesh.
This poll is still live at the time of writing:
As a channel owner, I moderate my channels using... 1️⃣ Advanced: More than three automated rules and active curation. 2️⃣ Basic: Simple rules like "power badge only," no active curation. 3️⃣ Autopilot: Warpcast default main/recent feed. 4️⃣ Huh? What's programmable moderation? https://canvass.fun/p/gxn4ur
source: @horsefacts.eth (Channel moderation poll)
If you read all of this I love you.
If you found anything to be incorrect or misunderstood, please let me know, I would be happy to update any errors.
If you found this to be useful or enlightening, consider giving me a follow, or at least tell me you enjoyed
Thanks for your time, and see you in the replies!
Update Aug 24: Shared by @Pichi a note from Aug 15 (or July 2 Zoom meeting date?)
Now onto Warpcast Updates: Feed Improvements - thinking about how the construction of your feed changes as you add more/less users - one thing observed: if you follow someone who cast a lot, that/those high volume users show up a bit too much in your feed, becomes self reinforcing - rolling out experiment to boost content you're not always seeing, if successful will roll out to a broader group of users - power badge deprecation: out of app and sunset at end of Aug. found it's not a great measure for priority notifications etc, have better systems in place for this(instead of identify by power badge, start with weeding spammy users out) ^ /neynar is continuing to run a power badge API that can be used
"- power badge deprecation: out of app and sunset at end of Aug. found it's not a great measure for priority notifications etc, have better systems in place for this(instead of identify by power badge, start with weeding spammy users out)"
Update Aug 27: Welp, they gave me a freaking PB this week. I guess because this write-up got a few likes and recasts from other PB holders, @dwr and @pichi replied to my thread a few times, and I've been casting a lot through the past two weeks participating in the /higher-athletics Lifting Challenge.. I won't get my hopes up for how long it lasts - lifting challenge is over and my power badge thread is (a few days) old news now, so next week I expect to be part of the badgeless majority again.
I still think this week's 2020 PB holders is a ridiculously small number relative to the 840k FIDs out there, but compared to the 50k Daily Active Users it looks slightly better at 4%.
Very curious to know what percent of the remainder are truly bad actors; spammers, farmers, scammers, bots. Certainly it is a big chunk .. but 96% ?!
Update Sept 10: Power badge depreciation has taken effect! And again they still live on! There was some transition period it seems, where @mvr discovered some neat differences between the Neynar PB list and Warpcast PB list (when they were both live).
He also discovered a portion of PB holders are flagged as spammers. This would indicate either real quality users are being wrongly labelled as spam, or bots are earning PBs (or both).
That said, I have just checked the Dune list and verified Yes the users on this list are labelled as spammers, but (even the ones I don't follow) DO NOT have hidden replies, from what I can see at least. This puts doubt in my mind as to whether the spammer list and spam checker cast action tools are correct - or maybe only a small number of specific replies are hidden, while most are visible?
[mini update: I have just found a hidden reply from a PB holder @vlady here. Most of their replies are visible, but this one in particular is hidden.]
Now, on September 10th, I noticed the Warpcast PB checker cast action failed to load, and the PB list API now returns: {"errors":[{"message":"Path /v2/power-badge-users does not exist"}]}.
It seems safe to say Warpcast no longer controls the Power Badge list, it is now maintained by Neynar.
Shoutout to @saxophone55.eth, I see he noticed the same thing, and has already posted an updated PB checker for the Neynar list.
Now in all channels I have checked; "Main" still shows only PB and follower casts, but "Recents" includes some or all badgeless casts.
Recaster has been my go-to easy way to show PBs (still works after this update), and it proves PBs are still alive and effective.**
Additionally since this update, I have personally noticed a lot more bots, low quality obvious AI casts and replies - more than last month for sure.
Who from Neynar can give us more insights on their PB rules going forward? PBs continue to drastically filter who's casts are seen, only ~4% of DAU casts are visible. The bots and farmers are a BIG problem as well. I have started reporting many spammy AI messages, they are everywhere. What a battle to solve this problem! The tiny list of PBs is not working very well, yet without it we would be buried in bots.
In my opinion, Farcaster needs sybil protection - proof of humanity. Alternatively a patch-job improvement would be to manually pare down the PB list (ensure 100% good humans), and entrust those individuals with awarding more PBs to other trusted good users, rinse and repeat to significantly grow the list while frequently checking and removing bad actors and bots that slip through the cracks.
**After posting this I just found a channel (/ai) where my cast does NOT show up on the Main feed, but I DO currently have PB on Neynar's list (and Warpcast's old list). They must have different channel settings there compared to most, but really, who knows wtf is going on.
[mini update: @y0b has informed me this is because /ai is set to host moderation, host must Like casts for them to go to Main]
More transparency on this topic would be very much appreciated. How nice would be it be to at the very least get an alert: "Although in your own feed it is visible, the cast you just made will only be seen by pre-existing followers".
Final Update Oct 12:
So much has changed in the past month, most of the above writing is irrelevant now. Some traces of the old Power Badge still kind of exist. The "activeOnFcNetwork" flag may affect frame visibility:
There are only a couple of frames still pulling Warpcast specific data. While Power Badges may be gone, there is a Warpcast specific client flag called: “activeOnFcNetwork": true This determines whether or not your frames show as full or collapsed to non followers and if you go into the Main feed of Warpcast moderated channels. We think it just updated at 00:00 UTC. This frame by @mvr is pulling that data. https://spam.hamst.art/frames/spammer/234616/bNfmM58W/1,my
Dan wrote about The spam filtering dilemma:
The spam filtering dilemma (Put the 3 long casts into a single spot for easier referencing.) https://dwr.email/the-spam-filtering-dilemma
One of his concluding points is Proof of Humanity would not solve the problem, I agree it's not a magic bullet, there would still be some malicious actors to filter in other ways, but it would be a significant start. The solution they actually implemented was hugely impactful. Here is the summary by @pichi:
Channel Changes and You (a thread) MAJOR Channel changes take place today, Oct 4, around 1:00 PM PDT. If you are a host, you should be studying the Notion notes about channels and be ready to invite moderators, human or bots, to your channel and decide how you will invite new members going forward. As a channel user, what happens at 1 PM will be different for every channel you are casting in. If you are NOT invited to join a channel and become a member, you won’t be able to cast into the channel. The Warpcast UX will change and you will be stopped from casting. You will have read access to all channels. If you reply in a channel that you aren’t a a member of, you are labeled as spam inside the channel and your replies go to the “show more replies” bucket unless a moderator or the original caster engages with your post. The UX will not stop you from replying. If you don’t like how a channel is set up, make your own channel. There are over 13,000 channels on Farcaster. Find your tribe.
and follow up:
So channel memberships didn't go exactly as planned. I've spent the last 10 hours testing the current moderation set ups and tools on my 13 channels and here are my initial impressions (a thread)...
It appears most if not all channels have been put in kind of a lockdown state - only Members casts show in the feed of a channel, and they are also the only ones to show in replies. Channel Followers (that are not Members) will be hidden below the fold on replies. And because there was no solution to comb through multiple thousands of old Followers, the Member list for most channels had to be wiped to near 0 for a true clean slate.
No bots, no spammers, no scammers, and no anyone else either. To become a member of a channel now, most of the time, you need to find a cast from the channel owner (which I don't believe is easily visible anymore?) where they offer to check and invite those that reply asking for a manual invite. Some channels have switched fully to paid hypersub subscriptions for member list, some have made a free auto-invite link that lets pretty much anyone join without filtering much or at all.
It does feel pretty different around here recently; as though the amount of spam is close to 0, and the remaining real active user number is quite small as well.
The drastic change has brought some criticism, for example:
I was going to post this in /warpcast but the new channels system means I can't. So here it is: the new channels system is quite possibly one of the worst designed, exclusionary systems I have ever seen not only on any social platform, but on any platform in all of existence. I am saying this without hyperbole. I've had the pleasure of getting to work on & with a lot of social platforms through my time in enterprise dev, before going full degen in the crypto world. I've seen a lot of bad systems, but honestly, this one is just.. really out there. Exclusionary-by-default is not how to grow a young social network. And don't come at me with the "just use a different client" shtick. It's natural to get attached to a client/platform you've used for months, and feel dismay when there's a pattern of changes being made which detract from the whole reason you fell in love with it. I can't even imagine the thought process behind this one. It is absolutely baffling. Feels like a ghost town since it was implemented. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/0b3d5d2e-b5ec-4c5b-b471-1bf76a49b800/original
"Exclusionary-by-default is not how to grow a young social network." it is very hard to argue with that.
But at the same time, it is very nice hanging out on FC with no piles of slop. It's almost as though my request for proof of humanity was granted: the ultimate test of humanity, can you figure out how to become a Member? It really only takes a few clicks to figure out most of the time - but it is a big enough barrier to stop the low efforts. Edit: My bad, they recently added a “Message owner” button, but still individually adding each member sounds daunting.
Even now that the dust has settled for a week and some days - I just checked a few channels, the best ratio I saw was 5% members, and most channels had 2%, 1%, or less. The /founders channel has 0.2% and /frames has 0.1% Members (visible casters) vs Followers (no casts show in feed, replies hidden below the fold).
It is massively exclusionary so far. And at the same time, it is nice chatting with real meat bags.
Final small edit: Had to pop back in to add, these guys just keep building:
What we shipped this week 1. Channels - More permissive replies, i.e. more people above the fold - 2-click invite to channel from a reply - Member badges - Ban from channel - A bunch of bug fixes 2. Reduced price of sign ups to $3 New spam model — more people eligible for USDC rewards 3. X / Twitter verifications and developer API 4. Full-sized frames are back 5. Expiring messages for DCs 6. Public Snapchain draft 7. FIP for location 8. Import a Farcaster account to Warpcast created outside of Warpcast 9. A bunch of other bug fixes
Onward and upward.
Are all of the 1847 PB holders extremely good users, who cast interesting content, and put serious effort into finding and lifting up other good users? Personally I don't think so. Most may be, but certainly not all.
I don't mean to throw shade at this particular user so I have covered the name.
They are probably a really cool person and probably an ETH core dev or something badass like that because somehow they got a PB and follows from some of the highest profile accounts on FC.
But they have seemingly only ever casted reposts from X. To be exact: 1 Hello world, 1 Recast, 1 Reply, 5 X reposts. Why does this person get the rare luxury of full visibility, while everyone else is buried without knowing they are buried?
A year ago when FC had fewer than 10k users, this small in-group system may have been a great method of dealing with spammers and scammers. Today when FIDs have grown nearly 100x since then, the same method of filtration is resulting in an outsized ratio of real good humans being thrown out with the bath water.
Personally I am excited for the day FC finds a way to incorporate an easy/safe way to attest our humanity (sybil protection) - rather than hiding everyone and giving an extremely small group special privilege. Always optimistic; this is not an easy problem to solve (even with a method to attest our humanity, spammers and scammers need to be dealt with), but if it can be done, I believe this is the place and these are the people that will make it happen. If it's still too early to work on a new system like that, then I suggest an improvement to the current system could be to: Review the current PB list and ensure they are all AAA users (pare it down a little more), then give those ultra-trustworthy individuals the ability to grant PBs to 3-5 other accounts, rinse and repeat a few times until a better balance is reached. The exact method could be different, just an idea, but 1847 seems to be way too small of a number relative to the current user base.
Thank you for writing this. I truly enjoyed reading about your experience. Appreciate you. I wrote about this in October 2023 (https://artlu.xyz/posts/warpcast-shadowbanned-oct2023/ ) and spent multiple episodes of our podcast /bcbhshow talking about related experiences. Am saddened that today, it appears things have changed, and yet they haven't changed. I do hope the crypto community can find a better way of balancing the real concerns of sybil-resistance and spam control, against the desire for someone else to provide each one of us with a spam-free feed.
thanks for the reply and your original post, sry missed this when you first sent it. can't find your profile on warpcast it gives error 🧐
just discovered i can't upload videos anymore used to be able back in the powerbadge era when i earned pb, used to not be able before that any info on who can who can't now, and why?
Most people can’t upload videos. There is no public criteria for how to get it enabled.
bummer, i had a clip to share 👎 guess i should stop working on the mini video project i've been chipping away at. well maybe i can put that one on zora when i finish, still bummer i won't be able to cast directly
also realizing i should not cast in /warpcast either bc my casts are buried to everyone other than followers, sheesh getting flashbacks to before i got pb and was always buried
Technically, all channels are now reverse chronological feet so in theory you have an equal shot of being seen it just depends on how many people are actively scrolling the channel. My bet is few but there are crazy people like me that have 10 to 20 channels that I scroll every day. And most importantly, hopefully someone from the Warpcast team is reading this channel since it’s been open to the public. I believe that was their intention that everyone could post feedback here.
Me neither it sucks 😞
https://paragraph.xyz/@madlog1c.eth/warpcast-experience October 12th: one final update on this write-up, and retiring it. (some points about the new channel overhaul) many links from @pichi ty for all the support and work you do around here 🫡 also linked casts from @mvr @eggman.eth casting this to nowhere because i am not a member of the relevant channels /warpcast /farcaster
oops maybe i didn't link anything from @mvr directly, but you should definitely use his useful frames: https://warpcast.com/mvr/0xacf519b502070aadc4b57712b72d8e952da83771
Thank you for this! 300 $Degen !! Very good to know all this information, also I always hated the "power" badge.. lol 🤣
whoops missed your reply ty kindly
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September Update! Scroll to the bottom, I have been adding to this original write-up https://paragraph.xyz/@madlog1c.eth/warpcast-experience cc @pichi @mvr @saxophone55.eth @0xmaru.eth @y0b - who else has been looking into this? TLDR: Power Badges continue to be effective, while spammy content has increased 😤
Thanks for keeping this info updated! 100 $degen Would be interesting to make a list of all "perks" reserved for Power Badge holders. Regarding channel moderation, if the channel info shows "no moderator" then the PB is used. The /ai channel is moderated by the owner, who needs to like casts for them to go to Main.
ahh touché thank you for the insight. i have yet to start my own channel (soon™) so i'm not too familiar with moderator settings
What channel do you have in mind? btw LOL to (soon™). Need to tag @grandenchilada for this reference even though she hasn't been active on Farcaster.
added mini update after your feedback 700 $degen
My spam mark was recently lifted so it seems the dune list I guess is already outdated :) didn't check but maybe all of them were unmarked? And btw Warpcast client api still returns the powerbadge. It's just that the list endpoint is no longer working. Which cast action did you use? My power badge cast action should still work and it will give you what warpcast thinks, not neynar. Neynar PB list is not used for filtering, I have a PB there but still my frames are collapsed and not expanded. Doubt it has any use other than to confuse
haha you were the first i checked! but yes i checked 3 other names on the PB+spammer list, and they do come up as "You have hidden replies" but when i looked through their msgs it seemed nothing was hidden. just checked again and i found 1 hidden msg from @vlady though i had to dig to find it (most are visible) the Check Power Badge action i used to use gives a red "Something went wrong" popup, but your new one works Neynar PB list I THINK is still being used for channels that use "no moderator" as y0b wrote, and as seen by most channels showing only PB holders in Main feed
Maybe @mvr can cast something in a channel with "no moderator" and serve as a test of sorts?
Hidden messages become visible when the cast author liked the reply. The frame is checking multiple before it tells you you don't have hidden replies
added mini update after your feedback re spam replies 700 $degen
1285 👏 2500 $WILD
Can you expand on this? All the dune queries I used bounced to Neynar today.
Because that's all they can easily use I guess. I have a neynar powerbadge but every frame I cast is still collapsed. My frames/ and badge checker action still display the warpcast pb.
It's Monday and /warpcast power badge API is still being used by clients like /wildcardclub. Others like @super and @herocast now use the /neynar API, which is supposed to be the same algo, minus a few manually added/removed accounts unique to Warpcast. It's also updated daily not weekly. How do I know this? I've been poking around, got some info from @mvr and also read this useful article by @madlog1c.eth https://paragraph.xyz/@madlog1c.eth/warpcast-experience
Confusing that I have it in here but it doesn't show on Wildcards app. I checked with marked as a spammer and other actions and they all show. Why do you think that is?
You can check your fid on both APIs and see what comes up: https://warpcast.com/mvr/0x1c810148
I am on the Warpcast list. Couldn't figure out where to search on the neynar one.
power_badge value discrepancy hi just noticed that I do have a power_badge according to the neynar api endpoints both v2/user and also v2/farcaster/user/power_lite endpoints my fid is 230238 however, my fid is not in the warpcast powerbadge api results https://api.warpcast.com/v2/power-badge-users is there an additional layer of filtering done by @warpcast which @neynar does not take into account (yet?)
apparently I lost mine again. Is it still affecting the interaction? I think PB is already left behind. Nothing changed, either you have it or not.
Yes still plays a role e.g. If you share a frame as a powerbadge it will be expanded. Without pb collapsed Also a lot of channels content moderation favors PB by default
Yeah mostly as PB holders you have more reach of audience whenever you cast, especially in channels. Maybe I didnt feel any changes because friends are interacting in normal ways, plus its hidden from UI as well.
https://warpcast.com/rish/0x98aabc95
https://warpcast.com/rish/0x45e3e030
ah didn't see that yet, useful information thanks! So it just kicked in and the difference could be due to the daily update. Not sure if you can answer this but will @warpcast migrate to your data as well? As of today there are still differences in ux if you compare pb to no pb like expanded vs collapsed frames. Or will those pb/no pb differences cease to exist? https://warpcast.com/emilee/0x8718ec97
@saxophone55.eth which endpoint are you using for your power badge frame and Dune dashboard?
Didn't they say that they stop with powerbadge in the Warpcast api, because they don't use it anymore on Warpcast?
maybe it hasn't been updated yet? I think PB is nothing special now
It still is special
for high ranks, for middle to lower ranks like me it might not be possible but, hopefully you get it back your PB 🥰
Collected some info and wrote my thoughts about the current state of Power Badges here, from the perspective of a trad soc avoider, with 6mths on FC. (i may be an idiot for only figuring this out recently, but at least i figured it out 😬) Appreciate any feedback or criticism! https://paragraph.xyz/@madlog1c.eth/warpcast-experience
this Farcaster user experience writeup deserves your attention @dwr.eth @v @horsefacts.eth
Excellent write up, thanks! 303 $degen 🍖 x 3991 1000 👏 7460 $units
baha love it, thanks for the mulibanger of a tip 🙏