The Unwritten Rules of Warpcast: Avoiding Spam Labels (V3)
Warpcast Spam labels are now public and it's time to take them seriously and avoid them at all cost.
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. You must understand why you got this label and how to avoid it in the future.
Spam vs. Spammy
We all know spam when we see it: viagra ads, a Nigerian prince who just needs a small favor, constant repetitive text. We, and algorithms, are pretty good at detecting this. But Warpcast isn't looking for Spam, they are looking for users who are being SPAMMY and this is a key difference. It's not about if you are a Bot or Not. It's not about proof of humanity. It's about if the algo thinks you are being spammy and labels you as such.
What does Warpcast consider "Spammy"?
This is the million dollar question. Here is the official cast about making spam labels public and the definition of Spam and Spammy behavior by the Warpcast team. The Github contains a JSON file of all the FIDS the team has labeled. At first release, the raw data set says: { likely_spammy_users: "236865", might_spammy_users: "200705", unlikely_spammy_users: "44054" } which means 91% of active users on Warpcast are labeled as spammy (This data was from January 23, 2025 when the labels were first made public).
Note: The algorithm was run again on February 20, 2025 and the new numbers are:
Likely spammy users: 232,867 (Level 0: Worst Label)
Might spammy users: 171,103(Level 1: Limbo Label)
Unlikely spammy users: 90,653 (Level 2: Best Label)
~82% of casters are labeled as spammy. This is MUCH better than a month ago! Almost 40,000 casters got upgraded to Level 2!
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
We're making the Warpcast spam dataset public. Over 400,000 accounts have been processed by our model, which determines the accounts that are most likely to generate inauthentic content or unwanted notifications. https://github.com/warpcast/labels
From the Warpcast Team:
Warpcast's spam models predict the probability that an account might exhibit spammy behavior. Spam is defined as behavior that intentionally generates notifications for other users in a way that benefits the author and annoys users who receive them. Some examples include replying with generic llm generated responses, bulk following accounts, posting irrelevant or generally offensive responses to other people's posts. Spamminess is not related to whether an account is being controlled by a human. There are many bots that are not spammy and many humans that are.
Our models make these predictions based on the combination of a number of factors including the account's historical activity, social graph, message content and the moderation actions that other users have taken on their account. No single factor will get an account labelled as spam.
There isn't ONE single action you can do to be labeled as spam. It's a combination of many factors, but the above text is purposefully vague. If we know the exact mechanisms the team is using in their model, the spammers will learn to avoid them. The best way to see what the algo thinks is spam is to look at a sample of accounts that are not spammy and a sample that have spam labels.
I choose to look at the Top 100 OpenRank accounts by engagement, the Top 100 Organic FarScore (FarRank) aka Airstack accounts, the top 100 accounts by Neynar Score, and the top 500 accounts on the Warpcast Rewards Leaderboard. All of these data sets are publicly accessible and give us great insight. While the Warpcast Spam Algorithm is secret, these public data sets are a good approximation for high quality accounts and correlate highly with each other.
Do I have a spam label?
You can look up your FID directly in the GitHub JSON file linked above, or you can use one of these two frames on Warpcast:
Compez's Frame is beautifully designed and let's you check friend's spam labels as well. He tries to make it a little more user friendly by color coding your status, but his language does not match 1:1 with the JSON file in the GitHub causing some confusion on the timeline. Your goal is to see Green on his frame and be labeled as "Low Risk: Unlikely to engage in spammy behavior." Anything else means you have a Warpcast Spam Label.
C O M P Ξ Z on Warpcast
🎉 Announcing Warpcast Labels frame beta 🚀 🧵/5 We’re thrilled to introduce Warpcast Labels frame, a powerful new feature designed to bring clarity and transparency to account behavior on Farcaster. With over 400,000 accounts analyzed by FC team advanced spam detection models, Warpcast Labels help users identify accounts that are most likely to engage in spammy or inauthentic behavior. Let’s dive in! 🔥 @v @dwr.eth @horsefacts.eth https://warpcast.com/v/0x04ad8f78 https://labels.genyframe.xyz
MVR's frame is an exact pull from the Warpcast data. Level 2 means you are "unlikely spam". Level 1 or 0 is a Warpcast spam label.
mvr 🐹 on Warpcast
I Am A 2 What about you? https://spammer.hamst.art/frames/spammer/230238/iam
How to Get out of Spam Jail
If you have a spam label you need to stop what you are doing immediately and completely change your behavior on Warpcast right now. Spend the next hour cleaning up your feed. Think of your personal feed as your Warpcast resume. Make it look good and cast differently going forward.
1. Stop Sharing Frames Excessively*
Most spammers feeds are full of frames. Allowance frames, game frames, whatever the new Farcaster meta is. Frames are fun and viral but you are overdoing it. Oversharing frames looks Spammy. If you are casting mostly frames or casting the same frames everyday, you look spammy. Top Casters rarely cast frames. When they do cast them, they usually write about why they chose to cast the frame and tell you why you should use it/try it out or give a shout out to the person who built it. They are sharing something cool, but they usually share it once and they are overly cautious in sharing. You can share frames, but your profile should not be littered with them.
The best way to see what the algo loves is to study the Warpcast Rewards Leaderboard and draw your own conclusions. Look at the Top 10 on any given day. Look back 7 days on their casts. How many frames did Top Casters share?
*@V aka the CoFounder of Farcaster shared some clarifications: "Posting frames is not bad"
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
Generally good advice, but I want to correct a few misconceptions: 1. Posting frames is not bad 2. Recasting is not bad The best advice is to post original thoughts. It's OK to quote, reply to, tag and engage with someone when you have something useful to add. https://warpcast.com/pichi/0xa84514e6
2. Less Recasting, More Quotecasting**
Most spammers feeds are also full of recasts with very little original content. Your feed needs to be mostly original content. When you hit the recast button 100 times a day, you look spammy. You can recast others cast, just not excessively.
Top casters quote cast. They add color, insight, or shout outs to the things they cast. They layer their own original content on top of the cast to make it more relevant to their own followers. They promote others, but with context. Quote casting is the HIGHEST honor on Farcaster (and the Original Caster gets notified about the quote cast in a way that stands out in their notifications) so sharing this way is a great way to get others attention.
**@V aka the CoFounder of Farcaster shared some clarifications: "Recasting is not bad"
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
Generally good advice, but I want to correct a few misconceptions: 1. Posting frames is not bad 2. Recasting is not bad The best advice is to post original thoughts. It's OK to quote, reply to, tag and engage with someone when you have something useful to add. https://warpcast.com/pichi/0xa84514e6
3. Be Original
80% of your timeline needs to be original content. Don't steal content from the web and post it as your own. If you do this in highly curated channels, Top Casters are going to block and mute you and NEVER interact with you. It's better to not cast at all than to cast slop. 20% of your casts can be quotes, recasts, and the occasional frame thrown in, but most of it must be unique on the network. Your home feed needs to be engaging and I need to be able to make a judgment call on you in one minute. When people look into your feed to decide to follow you, this is what they see. Make sure its good. Quality is key.
4. Don't Tag people who aren't your friends
If you have a spam label, people who don't follow you don't see your tags anyway. You are wasting your time. Do not cast a frame that excessively tags people. Do not cast a top level cast and randomly tag people. The algorithm hates excessive tagging and punishes it swiftly.
Tag your friends all you want. But anyone who doesn't follow you is a stranger. Do not tag them. They don't see you tag and therefore don't reply. When they don't reply, you look even more spammy.
Use channels to your advantage. Engage with people who don't follow you in channels and respond authentically to your content. This builds trust and they may start replying back. Once you have a rapport, you can engage with them more if they keep engaging back (likes OR comments). If they don't respond, move on or try again once your spam label is upgraded.
5. Be a Reply Guy, but ONLY in Channels
If you see a cast on your home feed that doesn't have a channel tag and the person who casted it doesn't follow you, skip it. DO NOT REPLY to it. The person who casted it won't get a notification of your reply anyway. They most likely will never see it. Your reply is orphaned: it gets zero likes or comments and looks like SPAM.
You shouldn't engage with Top Casters who don't follow you back, unless you see them casting into a channel that you are also a member of. Engaging with them outside of channels will probably get you a spam label. It's not worth it to try to get their attention. Join their hypersub or a channel they moderate. Unfollow them. Do not engage with people who don't engage back.
But, the rules are different in channels. If you are a member of that channel, everyone will see your comment. You have an equal shot of being seen. Use this to your advantage. Find well moderated, well curated channels who are building community. Spend most of your time in these channels. Engage authentically with other members of the channel and slowly build your network. YOU CANNOT GET A SPAM LABEL PARTICIPATING IN CHANNELS. Lean into channels. Find topics you are interested in and contribute.
Most Farcasters WANT authentic connections, but they are hesitant to interact with people who behave in a spammy or bot like way.
6. Don't use ChatGPT to fix your English
Many people with spam labels are non native English speakers. Many use Chat GPT and other AI tools to "fix" their English. Do NOT do this. It makes you sound like an LLM Bot. It's way better to say something in English and also say it in your native language to give English speakers a heads up that you aren't a native speaker. I don't care that your English isn't perfect. I care that you are genuine. If people think you are am LLM bot, they will ignore you. If they are unsure, they will ignore you. When people ignore you and your comments are orphaned with no engagement, you look like SPAM.
7. Don't reply with emojis, gms, or other internet speak
When interacting with a stranger on Warpcast (aka someone who doesn't follow you), you need to use full sentences. gm, hi ser, and random emojis look like spam and are not appropriate. Do this with your friends (aka people who follow you) not with everyone else. Automated accounts engage in this behavior, so most casters ignore them. The more your are ignored, the more you look like spam. It's better to not reply at all than to reply with low level slop. Do not attach some random photo or some AI generated nonsense to a reply to stand out. This just makes you look even more like a bot, and everyone will ignore you. When no one engages with you, the algorithm thinks you are spammy and will label you appropriately.
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
Deboosting Engagement Rings We're seeing more rings of users promoting "slop" - typically generic images produced by llm or copied from other places on the internet several times a day. Will be aggressively deboosting these with algo changes and also marking such users with stronger spam labels.
8. Unfollow Accounts with Level 0 Labels
You can use the Dune query below to find out who YOU follow that has a Level 0 Spam Label. You will need to sign up for a FREE Dune account and then add your FID to the box on the left hand side to run the query.
https://dune.com/jkavithamahesh/farcaster-followers-and-following-with-spam-label-by-fid
Scroll to the bottom and you'll see your following and who you follow. You can't do anything about who follows you, but you can investigate who you follow and take action. On the bottom right you'll see : Farcaster - Following with Spam Label - By FID; click the "label" heading to sort the table and go through the Level 0's.
Who are you following with a label? Are they honestly being spammy? Check their account and look at their recents casts. If they are being spammy, unfollow them. If they are marked incorrectly, help them get out of Spam Jail using the resources below.
What now?
The spam algorithm runs daily, but we only see public updates on Thursday evening (US Pacific Time). If you change your behavior today, maybe in a month you will be re-labeled. We don't know. This is the first time the labels have been made public, but all hope it not lost. Change now and hope for the best. You can also create a new account and start over following these rules.
There is a small chance you are labeled incorrectly. The algorithm is far from perfect. If you believe you haven't done any of the above and shouldn't have this label, get a Farcaster friend who is willing to stake their reputation on this and have them plead your case to the Warpcast team. Remember, the Warpcast team won't see your tags or comments because you have a spam label.
The Consequences of the Level 0 Spam Label
If you want to participate in Warpcast Rewards, you have to avoid a Spam Label of 0. You aren't counted as a follower and your comments are basically invisible to most casters. More developers are going to take these labels into account over the next few months, so it's important to do everything you can to stay in the god graces of the algorithm. Being "a real human" is not enough. You need to respect the culture of Warpcast and cast in an authentic way.
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
Level 0 is not eligible. Level 1 is eligible if you get enough engagement
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
Warpcast will remove "likely to be spam" accounts from follow counts soon. Likes and recasts from spammy accounts have been removed from counts for several weeks. We're now going to remove follow counts from these accounts as well.
Resources
Save Farcasters from Spam Jail: A How To Guide
Today, 256,912 Farcasters have a Level 0 Spam Label, meaning they are likely to be spammers. We can't check them one by one and see if they are a false positive; there are too many. But you can save your friends from the Spam Label right now.
This is @V's original thread about the Warpcast's Teams thinking about the spam labels and how they built the algorithm. It is required reading IMHO.
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
Some thoughts on spam on Farcaster and how we tackle it. First question - What is spam? The naive answer is "automated activity" but this isn't right. Over 75% of spam we find comes from real humans who have phones, wallets and x accounts. The best definition is "inauthentic activity". It's that feeling you get when you realize that someone who is following, liking or replying to is doing it to benefit themselves and not because they're interested in you.
Thank you Pichi, we always learn from you..We followed your rules but the problem remains in synchronization. My last synchronized L is 28 December.
Давно столько не читал! Даже интересно было, спасибо!
Great analysis and advice, OiChi. Will share it in the poetry channel to help people be more effective and fun casters.
My dearest Farcaster team, You don’t understand us; your 1,000 true fans. We are vocal because we love this place and the people it attracts. We are invested and we want to see what you’ve built thrive. We like it here. We don’t want it to go away. You didn’t build Farcaster for us, the 1% of power users, you built it for the masses. But you are giving us an opportunity to go from users who annoy you to customers who will pay money to annoy you even more. We are crypto nerds. We like jpegs. We love to speculate. You have no idea what you are about to unleash. We are coming. We are ready. And we will continue to ask about a firm date/time because we refuse to miss out on this opportunity to invest in the future of Farcaster and a chance to shape its trajectory. Get ready. choo choo mfers
yes but the number is 37 not 1000. never forget
lol I love the 37 meme
It's so good lol
We are Farcaster!
https://media.tenor.com/qXNmYeWOm3EAAAAC/cheering-baby-yeah
100% subbing as soon as I see it live
Me too. Rumor is Tuesday afternoon Pacific time.
Praying the mint wont be botted out before we get to mint haha
👀 Wish there was a 'copy pro sub' button.. Feels like you gonna get into the 1k. I am not sure how this is gonna go though.. I am assuming at least a few tens of thousands will try and press that notif when it appears! Wonder how it's gonna be fair!
Choo choo
Choo choo!
Thank you for speaking on our behalf
I completely agree with everything you just wrote.
<3 We are Farcaster!
💯 agree again 💜
💯 @dwr.eth I think you should raise those numbers. A lot of us nerds like this app
Woot! It’s now 10,000!!!!
Bullish on farcaster 💜
Farcaster has become so attractive these days that it has become a little difficult to be on this list :) right?
lff pichi!
choo choo!
def a day 1 nerd too
Aren't there only 37 of us?
Yup :)
We're updating our labelling system to have two labels: 1. Account Verifications - a measure of how much work the user has done that is hard to fake (e.g. winning rewards, adding socials) 2. Account Spamminess - a measure of how spammy a user's account is when interacting with others.
The way visibility on Farcaster will work is a combination of these labels. To show up in replies, you will need a verification label. You can get this by connecting social accounts and holding a balance of $25. We will also add a system where users who have been active on the network for a while and have built large followings can get a verification without connecting socials (exact system tbd) Verifications will not affect your ability to earn rewards or airdrops for now. We are going to test out the proposal as it stands, and we may make some changes to the criteria depending on how easy or difficult it is for people to achieve. Your feedback as we roll this system out is always appreciated, and we'll make changes based on it.
In addition to a verification, a spam label can also affect your visibility. Our spam labels are moving to a single label (yes/no) instead of a three point system. A lot fewer people will receive spam labels as a result of this, and it will be focussed on accounts that are malicious or exploiting the system. However, if you get a spam label you may not show up in replies even if you have a verification. Only people who follow you will see your replies.
We believe that these changes in aggregate will lead to a more fair system and more people will be "above the fold" when viewing replies on Farcaster. However, there may be some growing pains along the way as we roll out changes, and we appreciate your patience and feedback.
$25 across tokens and chains… right? (Natalie Portman meme)
yep, starting with a few big ones and then adding more assets
I was told no only bare ETH (or bare SOL)
Thanks for this info V
What of users that are active without a large following and are able to keep $25 in their wallets but dont have a social account to connect except for maybe a phone number?
can the balance be $25 in all holdings and not just eth? a lot of users have native tokens that should count
Good evening chief, I am grateful for the constant transparency and regular updates to make the app better My question is people who can’t afford the $25, completed all the verifications and by the algorithm are not viewed as spam, will they still be labeled spam, or what mechanism will be in cases for that aspect?
Hot take: rebrand "spam" as "noise" (vs "signal") I see y'all spend a lot of time explaining that spam in farcaster is not the same thing as spam on email, real people who post a lot that doesn't result in engagement is noise the same as bots creating noise. Might make it a bit more legible.
50% of farcaster accounts post a lot and don’t get enough engagement
want this for our mini app
Re account verifications - isn’t there inherent actions in certain mini apps that also become hard to fake? Particularly daily active use, high scores, streaks etc (even streaks breaking becomes more real)
Wouldn’t labeling accounts as spam make it easier for people to game the spam algorithm?
Another day, another ship 🔥
Is there anyway u can reduce the amount I assume not all users can keep 25$ Also will the amount be in degen usdc or eth, or the whole total of our wallet’s balance
This could be a good balancing act! Thanks.
Thanks for the clarifications and updates. I think spam yes/no is much easier to explain!
Awesome! Will users be able to see their own spam or verification label? It’d be super helpful to know where you stand, especially if something was flagged unintentionally.
Spam labels are public now.
where can i check my label?
This joke only makes sense until Friday when Warpcast becomes Farcaster. Mint to your Warplet now. https://3g9xjh1.warpcast.tools/api/frames/smooth-cheetah-40
It will make a great family heirloom someday
Gotta mint the Farcaster Lore before it disappears forever!
Gm amiga 🙂
I will always call it a warplet.
Me too!
For the warplet
https://media.tenor.com/PY71WVSwkcgAAAAC/kansas-city-chiefs-royals_jun
@olohigbepd you should mint this it’s really cute and free!
I still have mineee hihi
<3
Had that one in my collection for a while now, many thanks!!!😉🙌 (Although my warplet doesn’t seem to want to display many of my Nft’s)🤷♂️
The Warplet misbehaves.
That would be noice
Got one already
Long live the Warplet
https://media.tenor.com/jksbEFnU0k8AAAAC/book-of-boba-fett-the-mandalorian
HUGE changes to Spam. Spam is now binary. The algorithm is now set to likely to be spammy or unlikely to be spammy. The weird limbo level 1 level is gone and good riddance! Half of accounts on the network don’t have a label (probably inactive). Resources below on helping friends who are mislabeled.
https://paragraph.com/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
https://paragraph.com/@pichi/save-farcasters-from-spam-jail-a-how-to-guide
Maybe this will bring back the people who left a while ago. A lot of them were marked as spam about a year ago.
I hope so!!!!
Sweet, let's get back to spamming!
lol, I’m waiting to see how verifications play a role and if they change the metrics! Glad we have a new baseline.
yeah will be interesting for sure. I did all the things lol
Hi pichi, not related to spam but I just wanted to ask if the $anime token is still okay? Thank you 😊
All the liquidity was drained from dumping.
37 users and they have spam label
You must respect the spam algorithms in play on Farcaster. The Warpcast Spam Labels and Neynar are the two being used by most developers. You will miss out and not be able to play as more mini apps use them.
My problem is I don’t know why I got the label, I literally didn’t have time to cast on the day the label got on me and my neynar score is still 0.9
If people who don’t follow you think your replies are AI generated, they will ignore you. Be very cautious interacting with people who don’t follow you when they are casting into their home feed and not a channel.
I’ll unfollow everyone that’s not following me and start it all over! I hate being in FC jail! It’s sickening
Tipping via DegenSub 1048 $DEGEN
Thank you so much!
Great resource for everyone!
Thank you!
How can I get rid of the one I received a few days ago? The biggest downside is that I can’t share videos, and I’ve mostly become invisible on the app. My Neynar score is better 0.84.
@pichi mine spam label were not updated since last years 😞 what can I do???
I 1000% believe there are NO shadowbans (anymore). But there are spam labels and you need to understand them and know what yours is. If you feel like you aren’t being seen you need to do two things: 1. Make sure you spam label is “Level 2” (the good one) Links to check in the article below. 2. Interact with people. If you just broadcast and never like and reply, no one will see it. https://paragraph.com/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
One issue I have, I haven’t been as active as I have been in previous weeks and guess what, I got in the spam zone 1… could there be any reason for this? I interact genuinely with casts, I get responses and all that… I’ve bought more space for my casts, bought Reactions when I ran out of likes. What could the explanation be. I mean, I just wanna know if I’ve done anything else wrongly 🤷🏽♂️
If we don’t actively communicate with each other, our priority for appearing higher in the home feed drops, making it harder to get reactions. That’s why maintaining a Level 2 label is so important.
who is building this? best we have atm is probably @pichi's post: https://paragraph.com/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
qc didn't work, so subcasting: https://warpcast.com/bravojohnny/0x1861348e
lol, I think I am.
Don’t follow spammers! Your follows give power to the dark side of the network. Disconnect yourself from it ASAP. You want to be in the top of this map, not at the bottom! Level 0 casters are inauthentic spam and you should ignore them. OR They are good casters who the algorithm has mislabeled for one of two reasons: 1. They don’t realize their behavior triggers the algorithm but behavior can be changed! 2. They are mislabeled and need help from friends to get out of spam jail. For now, I link some resources for you to use below, but very soon you’ll be able to use this awesome tool by @geoffgolberg to analyze who you follow!
https://paragraph.com/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
https://paragraph.com/@pichi/save-farcasters-from-spam-jail-a-how-to-guide
Awesome Pichi!! Will that tool be for public use?
YES! Coming soon aka FarCon!
Great!! 500 👏
How do we know who's scammer?
Oooh that sounds/looks amazing!
I recently followed a bunch of folks, blindly…I need to unfollow because I know many are spam. 🤷🏽♀️😆
dang that tool looks great
Awesome! I can't wait to access this tool! 1523 👏
I follow a lot, no probs
Why?
I mean I have been one on the darkside, but not sure whether that was a 1 or a 0 So maybe it is OK to unfollow 0s idk but don't want to push the falsely flagged further in a bad place. It's not nice
I hope I can but some of my friends and those I've invited are currently in a spam label
The coolest part about the Paragraph mini app is that it gave my witch a cool mark on her forehead and I’m here for it. She looks awesome.
That is actually really dope! Not gonna lie, I should clearly go back to sleep because I hilariously clicked that screenshot about 5 times waiting for your article in the Paragraph mini app to pop up 🌚😂🤣😂 Just wanted to tap in & show my appreciation for you — thanks for connecting with me! 🙏🏾
lol, I thought about that after I casted it. This one isn’t a tease. https://paragraph.com/@pichi
arigatou gozaimasu ! 🙏🏾 (with all due respect to your journey through Japan lol)
yes. it’s a new age bindi?
Hell yes !
Testing the Paragraph Mini App to see if this makes reading all my articles easier. https://paragraph.com/@pichi
Let us know if you have any feedback on the miniapp
I can’t get it to recognize that it’s me. Maybe my wallet isn’t connected right on the website. I’m going to go check.
It looks good from selection pov
Rule 4 Don’t mass tag people. Maybe @rodeodotclub posts are an exception because artists actually love when you share our art. If you are tagging 10 people, why should I look at it? Do even matter? Why am I being tagged? Remember how this looks in notifications. It looks spammy. https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
yes, @rodeodotclub is an exception because they are intentional - you're sharing someone's art and want them to know. i love when i am tagged in a rodeo post.
Super important. Verifications are great to do, but you still can’t be spammy. Verifications alone won’t save you from a spam label! What is spammy? https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
spammers are more willing to do verifications
I think so too. They are hella motivated.
What’s a verification
How many of these folks cast consistently? (5 days in a row!) 11,558 How many of them are considered quality casters? (Level 2 spam labels) 2,110 https://dune.com/queries/4742322 Epic query by @mvr
Good Starter Pack idea right there
Oooo! I will think on this!
Farcaster seems to be using DAU as a KPI, but if they don’t continuously analyze the data while filtering out bots, they might misinterpret the actual situation. The most important thing should be the user experience. Lately, the home feed feels off. I wonder if they’re tracking impressions.
It feels weird to me but I changed time Zones so I blame it on that.
Cast everyday yet still my engagment is SHIT
I don’t think we really have the numbers we need and even with notifications on for people I still feel like I miss their casts and miss notifications!!!! I feel crazy some days. And I can never tell if people see my posts.
i see you pichi 👁️ 👁️
mine too, it's worse than ever and I can barely even make it in the top 1000 for rewards anymore 😂🙈
I feel that for sure it’s so segratated again and back to reading/audo book for @cdixon.eth honestly it seems that /warpcast is moving to the corporate models vs the web3 concept. TLDR this book is taking me forever to listen to
The Unwritten Rules of Farcaster (a thread 1/11) 1. Don’t ask for follows—most users ignore or avoid those who do. 2. Engagement matters—treat it as a social network, not just a broadcasting platform. 3. The algorithm prioritizes engagement—interact with content you like to train your feed. 4. Give likes freely to support content you enjoy. 5. Reply thoughtfully—generic responses don’t add value and may be ignored. 6. Tag people with purpose—avoid tagging non-followers without a good reason. 7. Use channels to connect—they’re a safe space for engaging beyond your followers. 8. If you’re being ignored, check your spam label—many won’t see your replies if you’re at Level 0 or 1. 9. Rules are looser with friends—banter freely, but remember relationships take time to build. 10. Farcaster is a unique, close-knit community—engage authentically, be patient, and you’ll find your place.
(3/11) 2. It’s a social network, not social media. Broadcast only doesn’t work well here. People want to chat so make your posts easy to comment on and engage with. Ask @gmfc101 about the difference and why it’s important.
(4/11) 3. The home feed algorithm is shaped by engagement. If you want to see more of something in your feed, interact with it. If you scroll by and don’t interact, the algorithm assumes you don’t like it and will stop showing it to you. It’s why you probably see the same people over and over in your home feed and not others. Teach it what you like. Use the following tab and scroll channels to broaden your content. Smash the like button
(2/11) 1. Don’t ask for follows. People don’t like that. Most casters ignore anyone with F4F or anything like that in their profile. Some of this behavior stems from many moons ago when you needed 200/400 followers to get an “Active Badge” and then a good ratio to get a Power Badge. Many airdrop farmers flooded the network with F4F posts that were nothing but spam in the hopes of being eligible for airdrops. This soured most of the network on F4F. You may be new and tempted to join in on these chains, but it will be detrimental to your experience here. Who you follow matters and by following people you give them power and your own reputation. Choose who you follow wisely.
(5/11) 4. Give your likes generously to content you enjoy. Don’t hold back. Technically you pay for likes via storage. Don’t worry about it. No one cares if you run out of them and the hubs delete your likes from 6 months ago. Now matters most. Don’t buy more storage just to like either.
(8/11) 7. Use channels to your advantage. You can’t get a spam label chatting in channels. This is the best place to interact with people who don’t follow you. If you scroll a channel and think it’s spammy, why would anyone else spend time there. Choose channels that are well moderated, have clear instructions on how to join, and have an active community. You don’t get an algo boost for casting in a channel. You hope others are scrolling channels (most channel hosts are or have notifications on for their channels!) so fine channels with active hosts and cast there for more visibility.
(6/11) 5. Reply thoughtfully. When someone is looking through their notifications, will they know what post you are replying to? Generic “gm”, “LFG”, “<emoji>, etc. doesn’t resonate here and will probably be ignored by people who aren’t your friends (feel free to emoji bomb your friends).