Chasing Blossoms

It's time to stop being polite and start being real. Farcaster is a super cool open protocol, but Warpcast, the main client 95% of us use to engage with it, is a closed sandbox with a lot of unwritten rules and culture that you have to figure out to do well. 91% of you failed to figure it out and got a spam label and now you are invisible. No one see your tags. Only your followers see your casts. Few people see your replies. You feel ignored and don't know how to get out of this purgatory. Yo...

Calling all designers and artists, we need a logo and we need it now! Tokyo DAO is holding an official contest to help us solidify our brand image. N...

TL;DR: Cast awesome content into the /anime-manga channel June 9-13 and have chance to share in the $1,000 reward pool sponsored by @tipn!How to ParticipateFollow the channel on FarcasterSubscribe to the channel HypersubThe @curabot account will send you an invite in a few hours Post bangers aka your BEST anime content from June 9 - June 13!Give you own likes and comments freely in the channel to help surface content you enjoy. The Cura app lets you see what’s hot, new, popular, and curated i...

TL;DR; The Reaper is back with a vengeance ➼ Follower numbers going crazy, down by a lot ➼ Rewards leaderboard scores are weird (probably points being removed because people are marked as spam) ➼ Overall engagement is down/strange ➼ Much confusion and people feel down on themselves and are taking it personally. Don’t. It’s not you. The Great Purge...AgainYour follower counts are going down because the spam algorithm is very aggressive this week. When someone gets labeled as spammy, aka a “0” ...

There is a great parable about starfish that I often reflect on when I am faced with an overwhelming problem that seems impossible to fix on my own and when I think about Warpcast Spam Labels, they are a huge problem. Having a "0" label makes you ineligible for Warpcast Rewards and developers are starting to use them to limit access to Farcaster native tools. Spam is a huge issue and not easy to fix. The algorithm will get better over time, but it's far from perfect. You can take action right...

Farcards have been around for a while on Farcaster, but I don't think we talk about them enough. It's much easier to mint your first NFT these days with platforms like Rodeo, but you still need something to mint. Farcards takes advantage of the Frames architecture on Farcaster and let's you mint in one click. You need zero skills to mint and create a FarCard. Just click the frame and mint. It’s that easy. You can also log into the website, connect your wallet and mint from there, but it's mor...

Please note: None of the tipping mechanics in this article are made by the Farcaster team. These tokens were created by independent teams and develop...

TL;DR: If the algo’s picking winners, trust erodes for everyone. It’s time we stop whispering about it and say it out loud. Something weird is happening on Farcaster, and it’s time we talk about it openly. This isn’t just “home feed doing home feed things.” It’s much deeper and more concerning. Some casts are skyrocketing with 10k+ views from accounts that have 1k followers. Meanwhile, longtime casters with 100k+ followers are seeing reach crater by 50%. The math doesn’t add up…unless somethi...

Alternative clients to the Farcaster App are nothing new. We’ve had great ones for a while: HeroCast, Supercast (RIP), Recaster, and Cura, to name a few. But the launch of The Base App (TBA)by Coinbase changes the game. It brings a totally different monetization model, its own reward structure, and a waitlist of 700,000 people who could be flooding the network in the next few months. If you’re serious about Farcaster as a protocol, it’s worth digging into all of the major players. When should...