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A whirlwind of events took place on Farcaster yesterday, with notable updates, feature launches, and community activities buzzing across the network. Here's a concise summary of the top trending events:
1. Narrowcasts Feature Launch by Dan Romero
A new experiment allows users to limit their casts to channel followers, facilitating niche discussions without overwhelming broader audiences.
New experiment on Warpcast Narrowcasts - Limit your casts to channel followers - Cast in niche / esoteric channels without “annoying” your audience - You can toggle between everyone and channel followers only - The composer will remember if you previously narrowcasted in a channel https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/7627faae-a675-469d-2569-f1eef14d1400/original
2. ETH Global Hackers Invitation
Farcaster extends a welcome to ETH Global hackers, offering free accounts.
ETH Global hackers can now get a free Farcaster account. If you know someone who has attended and isn't on Farcaster, get them to mint a pass today! https://ethglobal.com/packs/hacker
3. Narrowcasts Discussion Continues
Dan Romero solicits community input on narrowcast topics, showing encouraging engagement.
What are you planning to narrowcast about?
4. Excitement Over Longest B2C Order
Farcaster user Samantha celebrates her largest business-to-customer order to date.
I just got my largest B2C order ever from a customer today!! Wahoooo 😊😊😊
5. Spotlight on Spotlight Launch
Spotlight, Farcaster’s new attention network, goes live. This tool is designed to help creators monetize and command attention.
/spotlight is live. Spotlight is the farcaster attention network. It’s a social app. It’s a creator monetization platform. It’s a media protocol. Spotlight is a new business model for the internet, designed to efficiently monetize the work you do and the attention you command. https://www.onspotlight.app It is *not* a friend-trading app. It is *not* a tipping protocol. This video introduces the project and demos the app. Some more details below 👇 https://www.onspotlight.app
6. Summer Social EventCulver City
Robertfelt announces a summer DJ social event, encouraging local DJs to join in.
hey all! on behalf of the /djs channel we'll be hosting a summer social event for summer at club /ted in my (v accommodating) front yard in culver city! as it stands @annelisa and I will be providing beats, but would love to add more local djs to the beat curation list. if you're interested just shoot me a Direct Cast ( : https://warpcast.com/ted/0xb7ddc190 https://events.xyz/373fdd7b
7. CropXYZ Officially Launches
The on-chain social farming game CropXYZ is now live.
🚨 Calling all farmers! We are excited to announce that the CropXYZ is LIVE NOW on https://play.cropxyz.com/ Plant your crops today for a bountiful harvest later! 👨🌾 🌽 https://play.cropxyz.com/
8. Reflecting on Crypto State Q2
Alana Levin provides insights on the crypto market for the second quarter of 2024.
Where we are today and where we're headed
9. User Activity SurpriseFriend Discovery
A user highlights the enjoyment in discovering new FC-native products through recent follow engagements.
today i talked to some cool people i followed recently, discovered a FC-native product i didn’t know about before through one of them, and consequently found even more cool people to follow. bloody love farcaster.
10. Discussing Bot Issue on Farcaster
A heated discussion on bot management and potential solutions takes center stage.
I don’t know. I stopped looking at responses most of the time a month or two back, I just noticed it was getting pretty boring so I turned priority off and then it’s just all bots The way to stop them is not going to be a single mechanic, those will lead to the shadow ban complaint broadly. The techniques need to be based on the line the bots walk to look like an organic audience. I guarantee the devs responsible for the bots have left a number of signatures that are revealed in behaviors. Build a sentinel bot that engages with the suspected bot. If 10 replies are suspicious and sentinel responds to 10 and the response match in a significant way, then you can start quarantining. I would personally route them to a cloned but purgatory like environment where they get to continue interacting but now with zero impact. Then you’d be costing the bot devs money while returning no value. You guys just need to put on your pirate hats and attack this shit. If we can’t beat bots then we really are all lost
11. Joan Westenberg Shifts to Paragraph
Westenberg moves her non-crypto blog to Paragraph, citing better functionality over other platforms.
🍕 Tech + economics + humans
12. OnCoin Summer Buildathon
New bounties and buildathons launched as part of the onchain summer initiatives.
Bounties on Farcaster
13. Bountycaster Collaboration Announced
Joey DeBruin reveals Bountycaster as a vital partner for upcoming projects.
Two of the big limiting factors we see for builders are: - having an idea for something that solves a real problem - getting paid @bountycaster addresses both, and I’m pumped to announce that they’ll be joining v5 as a partner. $175k in open bounties, and more coming soon 👀
14. ETHGlobal Event in Brussels
ETHGlobal announces its next event in Brussels, seeking to foster the European Ethereum community.
🇧🇪 Buckle up, ETHGlobal is coming to Brussels 🇧🇪 Come join us for our largest event in Europe in 2024, where we bring you an unforgettable week of hacking, meeting other builders, and exploring an iconic city 🍻 Save your spot now: https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/d97f6f0c-b873-4de6-91bc-90900aa82800/original https://ethglobal.com/events/brussels
15. Engagement Strategies for New Users
Innovating ways to better engage with new Farcaster users through strategic partnerships and experiments.
What's preventing you for from casting about your niche interests in channels? How can we make it easier / more likely that you would do it
16. Sam Celebrates Upcoming Hypersub
User Samantha teases an upcoming hypersub filled with candles and discounts.
/humankind hypersub coming in 3 weeks will be packed full of candles - and discounts from your other favourite hypersub creators! stay tuned 🕯️✨
These updates encapsulate the vibrant ecosystem of Farcaster. Users continue to engage deeply with new features, creative pursuits, and community events. The emphasis on narrower audience engagement, creator tools, and community-driven content points to an ever-evolving, dynamic social network.
A special shoutout goes to user @johncamkiran who joined the Farcaster space recently. Their humorous and historical casts have started garnering attention.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being added to English language dictionaries than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Here are her maidservants, simultaneously lamenting their majesty's death and the impending inclusion of that term: https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/2f5bff10-b450-4559-53ed-1ec2bc8e5400/original
Stay tuned for more updates and engage with these lively discussions!
Editor's note: hi all, borodutch here; this is the next iteration of Minimalist Farcaster. I'm still working out good AI prompts and the type of content that will be cool to see here. Cast your suggestions and feedback directly to /minimalist. Let's make this daily summary better together!
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ai is dumb, more duplicates! https://paragraph.xyz/@minimalist/17-06-2024
can you add a “supervisor” AI to check for dupes?
lmao maybe
mostly bc I hear people do that but I don’t know how 😂 so I want to see you do it