please keep in mind that the more followers you have that don’t see you and have the “unlikely to engage in spam” label can actually hurt your rank and engagment metrics espeically if they are not seeing you to begin with.

Lets start this off with ways to help get the most out of farcaster and make sure genuine interactions and engagments are seen and those who are being authentic you are able to find and create better experiences for everyone. ESP since there are so many ALT clients coming into play having each one in your toolkit for Farcaster The Protocol is super important. Here is the list of apps I use: Recaster, Farcaster, Base, Uno, and Cura. There are also many others too like Herocast, Super, Firefly, and I’m sure I am missing so many more that exist.

• Other tools include some mini apps and dune dashboards

  • Bulk unfollow tool

    • mini app https://compu-compusophy.vercel.app/ (this unfollows everyone minus yourself) by @compusophy

      ▼cast fom farcaster

      

    • uno.fun is working on one https://farcaster.xyz/erica/0x515ef2a2 from their application says co-founder @erica

      ▼cast from farcaster

      

      
      

  • The below are to see how activity and engagement run accross your account and others on the network.

    • https://farcaster.quotient.social/

    • https://dune.com/nhejyht/farcaster-followers-audit

  • These are for unfollowing folxs who care about Follow 4 Follow

    • https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/kPXo6xjxa3KG/followback (please keep in mind this one you do have to pay a small fee to mint the NFT accessing the mini app) by @cashlessman.eth

    • https://dune.com/queries/5538652 Dune query by @bytebot Antisocial Farcaster Users

    • https://farcasteruserstats.com/tools/unfollow (this one is older from the days of powerbadges it’s old and possibly not maintained and use at your own risk) unknown origin|creator

  • Follow checker based on FIDs

    • https://recaster.org/tool/follow-checker from Recaster by @haole

  • All all in one mini app for checking engament, followers, unfollows and Mutuals

    • Vibeshift is also currnelty adding more needs to the app from mvr https://vibeshift.ham.cooking/?ticket=123 (more to come soon too)

Base’s algo uses @mbd which "is a platform for everyone to build their own algos, it’s all about the end user first. Want it to be powerfull Personalization but also super easy to use by developers and soon by everyone!”

▼casts related to quote above

About my torrid time here with Farcaster

I have been talking about doing this for a while now and with the most recent changes to the ALGO I finally decided to see what was going on for myself.

Some of my history and backstory:

Which I have documented before but will touch on again for reference if you are more interested to hear it from my POV please visit the Paragraph I put on chain in June 2024: From the Void to a Badge.

▼Just for a taste of my first experiences with this app. here are a few messages from my experience first joining farcaster with hope and energy

To feeling alienated and ostracize.

To leaving for months on end

Only to come back and fall into a shadowban hidden place.

the notion document has since removed his section as well as countless others.

I went dark for a few months after this happened on the app and completely forgot about it until I had friends who finally used my code to join, and they brought me back into the platform. The damage went from mild to worse in a few months.

Bot or not, once told me I was a buildooor, and shortly after, without knowing it, my only guess is others in the channels started labeling my posts as spam.

Sharing too much art due to my excitement of diving back into the Warpcast scene, thinking I was sharing my creations and light with the world, and going from seeing the "top caster badge" on my profile to even being shadowed from my channel, I co-ran at the time /wac

I have been part of farcaster since November 2023 back then I was so excited and was somehow trying to get involved. I even invited a few friends to join me in this new venture. YET when I was casting I was met only with animosity and made me feel so unwanted. I started by casting direct to the home feed and after learning about channels each time I would cast into one I was met with bullying and punished and kicked out of all of the ones I would try to engage with.

▼These little quirks have been around since the app started. If they want growth it needs to come from more than artifical boosting and treat all protocal users equal. Many of us have chosen to support the protocal and we would like to have some say and governance in the situation at hand.

▼More found casts from the beginning of my journey here.

After my hiatus I came back around the third season of Degen. I was so lost as we all are when coming into a platform that is constantly changing and moving at light speed. I wondered where the warp tipping went and why there was an iflux of constests requiring participation. Promising money for XYZ.

So I started participating. Completely unaware at first that my account if I didnt recieve engagement and continued to work on getting seen, connect, and rewarded for my works I would get penilized. Maked as spam and then get completely removed and placed into a SHADOWBANNED void. Unable to even reach a support system since NO ONE understood at that time when you got SHADOWBANNED your access to send messages to the Merkel team as well as anyone else who wasn’t mutual followers was taken away.

▼Even the channel I cofound was unable to see my casts. Anyone who didn’t follow me stopped seeing me.

This really makes me annoyed and perturbed that artists, folxs, and some of the best humans I know on the internet are leaving this platform left and right due to the algo pushing us down. Without artists continuing to advocate for each other and ourselves and countless others helping shape communities like the founding members of /wac I would have left months ago when I was stuck in the SHADOWBANNER void. I came back after a bad experience last year Nov/Dec 2023 where I had no idea what I did when channels came out to piss off a dev.

Then when I returned, it was a slow decay into the SHADOWBAN in APRIL to MAY. Who knows what I had done but all the sudden I was written off the face of the platform not seen by anyone screaming into the void.

How are we supposed to invite other users to this space when retention goes down each day?

I honestly think that there is something amazing about this space through all its faults and implore you to please look deeper on those who are working to make it better vs stomping on the creators here.

▼cast from 24th of September 2024

▼cast about rewards vs active followers yet if followers that are active are unable to see creator content from all those they follow then having an ACTIVE follower that has a good ranking and is choosing to follow someone else without seeing that users content it makes it a negitive mark against that user vs empowering them to continue to be prolific and part of this community and protocal

▼So with that in mind I took it upon myself to get more involved and study some of the the issues with the algorithm first hand. I am thankfully in a group of a few folxs that are gathering data and personal experiences to report. In the hope of implementing change.

▼Yet the propoganda of New Accounts thriving started to be played up by the whole merkle team so artifical boosting of select newbies was put into place over a month ago

If so many on the timeline have been talking about this issue with out avail what are we to do?

Stephan on Farcaster

algo feeds are basically mind control technology might unironically warrant some degree of regulation in its current state and is a vulnerability that should be addressed in the next iteration of online social

Farcaster

The only IDEAL outcome is that there IS abundance for all that if we continue to ask and do our best to stop resisting we can all thrive. As I constantly say you need to water from the roots since watering from the leaves or top will end up killing the plant. To stop feeling like tho I have moved out and worked for myself and others to be no longer shadow banned that even with all these “high verified” numbers that they system dishes out it means nothing. I spend hours making content, posting trying to engage with others and still I’m treading water. If I go with the flow and get taken under fighting for air. Yes I don’t know how to play their game here other than keeping my following count lower since I check three or more alt apps to make sure if someone is truly also trying like I am that they feel seen and heard.

PSA time to clean your followers meaning who you choose to follow. As we know, Farcaster shows us only a portion of what’s going on in casterland there are many other tools one can use to make sure engagement is a two-way street. One of my favorites as always is @recaster-fc. So make sure if you can get a bigger picture and zoom out. Trust me. You’ll be happy for it. Mind you I do use farcaster as my go to client. And honestly, I need to see if Coinbase wallet allows for more visibility and information there as well. I just need to get better at putting that one into my toolkit. Remember, even when the algorithm hides us, it is important for visibility trust circles, and growth here by making sure we are putting our energy in the right places if somebody unfollows you feel free to do it back if anything it might benefit both of y’all in your chances of getting into the algorithm and actually being seen.

Okay now to my experience and experiment

All and all you can see this is something that has been going on for years and as things change I decided to take it into my own hands to try and understand waht is going on in the HOPES that we can make it better and stand up together.

I’m going to be refreshing all my following soon to see how the algo through removing who I follow. I have been talking about this for a while more than a few months and honestly the algo hasn't gotten better so now with this tag from @pichi I’m going to be just ripping off the bandaid. Please remember this is an experiment. The app being used is created by @compusophy and I have downloaded the backup file https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/zuk8qhrAxueF/compusophy

First of all I used this tool to document all 444 accounts I have previously kept as following

to be completely transparent I have had issues with the fact that yes

1. I’m running an experiment

2. People have ways to quicky unfollow those who don’t follow them back

   1. which I FIND is so werid when we PREACH that we hate the concept of FOLLOW FOR FOLLOW yet somehow we are still really keen on having it

3. I may be following less folks than before especially if its been a while since we have engaged PLEASE remember that how the ALGO treats followers that are deemed good quality MEANING spam label 2 who are ACTIVE and part of your follow count ACTUALLY HURTS your social score on this platform vs helping it since it shows that YOU are reaching less folks that are ENGAGING back with you and thus it is HARDER to rank higher in the FARCASTER ecosystem to be seen and rewarded for YOUR contribution.

TBA I’m still slowly adding back those I have followed before or most of them unsure if I’m gonna add everyone back to be completely transparent. FYI TL:DR Having someone labeled as “trustworthy” follow you without ever engaging can actually hurt your visibility and ability to earn rewards on this protocol. If they’re active but not interacting with your posts, it signals low engagement — which works against you NOT for you. Please remember this has been an experiment of visibility even at a small scale. It’s been weird and disheartening at times. It’s extremely disconcerting that even at this small stage I’m still not seeing everyone that I am following currently. THIS TRULY WORRIES ME ABOUT THIS ALGO HERE ON FARCASTERS PROTOCOL.

The algo being changed is something that has been going on since this app has started. It seems at times that it is YES better than web2 yet at time it seems to be running into the the same issues that we are trying to move past.

▼v has been talking about some of the boosts that have been in place from the algo. There are a few different times over the year that it has been mentioned.

This experiment is still ongoing as of the 4th of August

As every server and community has moderators, it is something that is needed on larger scales to facilitate content and community that helps the platform grow, give constructive feedback and allow us all to have a place at the table.

Pushing us into cozy corners can be a quick fix yet if we all want to create a larger and more meaningful engagement cycle then there needs to be a shift within the core that ripples outwards.

Having trusted users outside of what was once created, giving attonomy to a wider base and letting go of the past preconceived notions will be the fastest way for us to create everlasting and meaningful growth here on farcaster for now and the sustainable future.

yes saying normal is an understatement for sure

Speak out for food and living equally in all aspects of our lives.

There is a way for us to ask for abundance and growth and push through the resistance to cultivate changes for good.

2nd of June 2025
stream of consciousness
by jacque

Within our abilities
It’s in our grasp
To continue to search for abundance
And let go of the past
Choosing to push forward
Each and every day
We are here on this earth for a reason
No matter what they say
Choose to be true to your soul’s divinity
And spread the light
That shines from inside your soul
For more to see

Blooming in the darkness
Blooming in the darkness

In this journey
We never know which road to take
There are always choices
That one must make
Having to see beyond ourselves
Viewing from above as the higher self
Creating through trials and errors
Finding out
And pushing through those crazy towers
Even when the world seems dark
It doesn’t mean it’s the end
Crafting from down below
Plant the seeds so they grow
Even in the darkness
Buds will bloom
And become bright
Shining lights
Through and through
We live
Breathe
And die
As one
On this earth
Under the same moon
And sun
Creating a new reality
Choose compassion
And love everybody

We can be our own worst critics
Hardest contributors
To either our own personal joy
Or hell on earth
I know this
Sadly
From personal experience
That as a creator
I am my largest critic
Working each day to shed more light
And bring more positivity to myself
As well as the world around us
Sharing in everyone else’s wins
Yet forgetting to show joy in my own
Shift the perspective
Change the narrative
You can always start again
You can always begin anew
Choose now
Work towards that brighter future

Create art
In a vibrant and colorful style
Seamless
We never know in this life
Which way the wind will blow
High above
We walk
Almost as light as we can
On this tiny tightrope
Above the atmosphere
High above the city
Looking down below
We never know
Really
Which way the wind will blow

So
Keeping up with time
Ever-changing pace
Where is the right place
For me to show my face?
Is it something
That I have not seen before?
Or is it the same path
That I should just ignore?
Choosing which way
Even if it’s terrifying
Being true to yourself
Can be oh-so gratifying
Continue forward
Push through
Time is but an illusion
When it comes to nature’s bloom
We never ask
For anything else
Except for gratitude
It takes its time
It plants itself
It may take decades
To come into being
The fruition may be slow
But it’s there
Trust me

combined from many different poems and prompts for art by jacque with the help of GPT keeping my words as written by me on the 8th of May 2025

In this single life, we must choose,
To transmute the pain, to find the hues.
Of light and shadow, we hold within,
Choosing grace where fear has been.

Every emotion, a gift to embrace,
Love and acceptance, the threads we trace.
The human form, a vessel divine,
A chance to align, to heal, to shine.

We stand in this world with purpose grand,
To bridge the divide with a gentle hand.
To rise, uplift, and vibrate higher,
To burn with love, an eternal fire.

One lifetime, one chance, we hold this key,
To heal the world and set hearts free.
With kindness and grace, we shift our fate,
Creating harmony, it’s never too late.

stream of consciousness
24th of January 2025
by jacque

Releasing all that negativity,
Choosing the brightness ahead,
Even if it’s filled with a little dread.

Leaving not what is behind,
Other than the unserving kind,
Choosing to live in the now,
Even if your soul is bound.

Forgiving ourselves for the pain
Of what was once a game,
Choosing to hug our inner child,
Loving it always in any style,
Spreading light within the untamed and wild.

Transmuting light from that pain,
Knowing it’s from whence we came.
We can look back with kinder eyes,
Since that’s the only way we will survive.

stream of consciousness
January 17th 2025
by jacque

Thinking that there was more to life
Instead of all this horror and strife.

Becoming vulnerable, looking past
Things that I would’ve just laughed.

Choosing to tear down my walls
And then realizing I’m the one who falls.

Not knowing which way things go.
Why, oh why, this path of woe?

It’s not like I chose this way.
And gosh, my heart is in dismay.

There was no love here or there.
So why the fuck do I even care?

stream of consciousness
9th of January 2025
by jacque

Feeling deep
Down
You
Have always been there
Even before I knew

It was back and forth
The energies
I have always felt
Thriving
Yearning
Wanting to intertwine

That golden thread of fate
That we tried to cut
Ignore
Still stands strong
Even if we go different ways
Our eternal paths
Will we meet in the 3D
Or
Just our higher selves in the ethereal plane

25th of October
Stream of Consciousness
by jacque

The fear sets in once again
The hatred felt so strong
Without cause
Or reason
Just blind

Where is the love
Compassion
Choosing to see our best in others
Uplifting
Growing
Healing the great divide

20th of September
by jacque

What is Life

How do we measure it
Deep
Down
In my bones
I feel it
Trying
Living to breathe the air
Going on my journey

Yet am I even alive?

Compelled to make change
Feeling ever so stuck in place
Over and over it spins forth

When will freedom come
We have abundance yet

I keep seeking
To find
Something
That seems outside
Of my own
Reach
And scope of mind

Pushing forward
If you fail or fall
Get up
Get up and keep going
It’s coming
That shift
Change
Feel it deep down within
Pull it forward
Rise up

17th of September 2024
by jacque

"NO ONE would get notifications!" said Warpcast user @jacque. "This was something I tested at least a dozen times." Things got rather dark as she explains, "I was drowning in an endless pit of despair. Feeling awful and stupid AF. I invited friends in thinking, 'IS THIS THE FUTURE?' A tiered society and atrocious hierarchies that Web3 and decentralization was supposed to be making obsolete?

Does this sound familiar? Were you as lost as Jacque? Maybe you still are. If you don’t know what to do or if you are confused, you are not alone. You know that you are a real person. You may want to use your Warpcast (WC) account to engage with the WC accounts of other real people. Perhaps you want to be seen. A simple desire with a deceptively complex solution.

Welcome new users to WC. It is but one client among a growing list of end-user clients built on top of the Farcaster (FC) protocol. The rules for engagement can be found on the Warpcast Blog. However, WC is frequently updated. User @dwr.eth, Dan Romero, one of the founders of the FC protocol, regularly casts about improvements to the client. Actions and frames like /bot-or-not, used to extend the feature set of the client, are also added and updated frequently. A recent search on GitHub returned 4.9k files and 167 repositories with the term “warpcast” in them.

One of the most recent updates to the WC client that Mr. Romero has cast about is “narrow casting” (shown below). A user can choose to make their casts visible to everyone or just the people that follow a specific channel. It’s so new that there’s no mention of it on the WC Blog.

Let’s assume you’ve read the entire WC Blog, and you’ve kept abreast of every cast by Mr.  Romero that relates to improvements to the WC client. If you have, then you know about the importance of having a Power Badge (PB), the effects of Priority Mode (PM), being a Top Caster in a channel, and the possibility that your account could get “Nerfed”. You will also know that if you don’t like the way things are on WC, you can use another client (see graphic below) or build your own client. If you can program using TypeScript, JavaScript, Shell, C++, and Solidity, then no problem.

Not Everyone Speaks in JavaScript

"A lot of people struggle with [the algorithm and Power Badges], it's like a caste system: Power Badges and top users,” user @angelikakollin explains. She describes the ranking system as "humiliating for new users." The pursuit of Power Badges and top rankings has caused many, including Angelika, to question their continued participation on the platform. “Warpcast demands an experimental, unrealistic growth for the potential to be seen and have your ranking go up. As if there is a ceiling that constantly needs to be broken.” said Jacque.

"In this space, you NEED to connect," Angelika emphasizes. She highlights the importance of finding side communities, as she did with art and photography. Recognizing the barriers put up by the technical jargon used by many talented devs in the space, she took it upon herself to break down these barriers. “This is too complex. Let me explain it easier!” Angelika said. She has spent time helping many users who are non-native English speakers and web3 enthusiasts who have joined WC between February and June.

A new user on WC that casts brief messages like “GM”, in obscure channels, with no PB followers will most likely NOT be seen by other users. In this situation, how can a new user on WC get seen? Mr. Romero has some helpful tips in this cast (shown above). How can they begin working towards obtaining a PB themselves? Mr. Romero has this advice:

Chasing the accounts that have a PB can be a long game. “Everyone is playing ‘degrees of separation’ from the ‘pretrust seed’.” said user @0xt0ny recently on a FarHouse space called “Power Monday” that was held Monday, June 24, 2024 and hosted by @pichi. The “pretrust” table of seed users that Tony is referring to is described in detail in the OpenRank documentation here. In short, the pretrust seed is made up of PB Holders. The size of the list of PB Holders is shrinking week to week. This past week, when the new list of PB Holders came out, sixteen fewer accounts had a PB.

To Become A Power Badge Holder

It can be quite a life changing moment for those who have tried so hard, for so long, to finally receive their PB. User @sunnysangwan was one of the 304 accounts that became PB Holders this past Monday. “For the first time, I’ve begun to have meaningful conversations. Without my PB, I did not have much interaction.” said Sunny.

Sunny decided to follow the advice of user @pichi from “Power Monday”. Pichi’s advice includes things like cast daily, participate in streaks, post interesting content, research who has high interaction. “Sunny did what the app asked him to do and the app rewarded him for it.” Pichi said.

“It does require a mental switch.” said Sunny about modifying his behavior to suit the WC preferences. “This ecosystem rewards building. I built a gallery where a bunch of artists got together and released a collection. You need to be creative to figure out what you can build.” 

Casting Like A Bot

For some people on WC, creativity isn’t enough. They need high-level English language skills too. Otherwise they may be considered “spam” or a “bot” by other users. Those terms are tossed around a lot without a solid definition. Instead, let’s use “Low Quality Content” to describe the “GM” and “Much Wow!” casts. Still, quality is a subjective term. How would you feel about a cast that clearly read like it was spit out by an AI Large Language Model chat application like ChatGPT?

Angelika provided an important bit of context on user @ted’s Club Ted FarHouse space on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. “ESL people, specifically those who use Cyrillic language format differently, so they use AI chatbots to assist them,” said Angelika. “That may be the reason why their posts sound like a bot. Russian or Ukrainian gets severely compressed through translation into English by ChatGPT. Their voice sounds blocky and strange.”

Roughly ~70% of the casts over a recent 32 hour period contained English language text. Does that mean ~30% of the casts contain non-Latin alphabet characters? A data query by user @aperture was pulled from 2024-06-26 22:24:01+00:00 until 2024-06-28 13:35:25+00:00, and parsed by a python script they wrote yields a total of 769,334 casts. “Casts with Degen are filtered out, also casts that had less than 10 characters and casts for which the language couldn't be determined.” wrote Aperture in a DC with @awedjob.eth in preparation for this article.

A more complete dataset could be pulled from casts for the entire month of June. It would contain over 18M casts. Aperture said, “ …to compute this for the whole 18M it would take longer than 18 hours to calculate the language for all of June.” It was not possible to perform this task and meet the deadline for this article.

While this doesn’t represent all non-native English speakers on WC, it gives a rough approximation. One such non-native English speaker is user @hanisart. She came to WC, attracted to the protocol’s decentralized nature and the freedoms that come with it. When asked what it was like starting out as a new user on FC, user Hani said,

بزرگترین چالش من این بود که چه نوع محتوایی تولید کنم. من قبلاً در” اینستاگرام محتوای هنری تولید می کردم، اما به زبان مادری ام (فارسی)، حالا باید می فهمیدم چه نوع محتوایی محبوب تر است و آن را به انگلیسی قابل فهم ترجمه می کردم (کاش یک هوش مصنوعی وجود داشت که ما  نیازی نبود زبان مادری خود را تغییر دهيم)”

"My biggest challenge was what kind of content to produce. I used to make artistic contents on Instagram, but in my mother tongue (Persian). Now I had to find out what kind of content are more popular and translate it into understandable English, (I wish be an Ai that we don’t need to change our mother tongue)”

Hani is a physical painter and Sunny is a photographer. Both artists understand the importance of producing meaningful, intentional artwork in order to engage with people. They have worked hard to follow the suggestions made by Mr. Romero and Pichi.

On the “Club Ted” FarHouse space held last Wednesday, user @ted invited @geoffgolberg as a guest speaker to talk about building a social network. Ted encouraged people to, “...surface niche and high quality information and entertainment instead of ‘follow for follow’ and ‘Money Guns’.”

Cozy Corner

In the fast-paced, ever-evolving, landscape of WC, you may feel overwhelmed. However, amidst the chaos, there are pockets of comfort. Call them “cozy corners''. Here we can connect with friends and discover new channels through FC clients like Unlonely, Drakula and Farhouse. These tools help us verify that a caster is human 

Adding audible language to the discussion provides subtlety and gives context to who the speaker is and what they are saying. You can differentiate between a speaker that has a faint or a thick accent. Coming up and speaking in a space on FarHouse enhances learning and strengthens connections within our communities. Since its launch, Farhouse has hosted a variety of talks, from casual 420 hangouts to in-depth discussions about power badges with casters like Pichi, Tony.

Advocates–Buddy System

Angelika's advice for newcomers is to seek out the helpers and community builders who make Farcaster a supportive and engaging space. These individuals are the true heart of Farcaster, fostering a community that thrives on connection and mutual support. It's not just about the "free money" from $degen tipping; it's about building a community and finding artist friends, as traditional 2D artist Hani discovered. Initially drawn by the potential to earn money, they quickly realized that Farcaster offers much more in terms of community and camaraderie. 

“At the beginning , I thought I am here because of earning money. But quickly I realized that FC is much easier to build a community and find artist friends.” -@hanisart

Conclusion

Remember the story of the Power Monday founder, who lost his Power Badge because he was too focused on helping others and neglected his own account. It's essential to find a balance between contributing to the community and maintaining your personal growth.

Embrace the chaos of Farcaster's current phase, but anchor yourself in the cozy corners where you can connect, learn, and grow. By posting quality content, seeking out community builders, and staying curious, you'll find your place in the vibrant tapestry of Farcaster and contribute to a thriving, supportive community.

My personal journey was not as bright as it might seem; there has been a lot of misinformation and changes to the protocol, some for the better and some that just made it harder to keep visibility through the neediness of this platform and the sure numbers game that needs to be played either on your part or if you have the powerful friends that are the seeded group the prayer and hope that they are willing to help raise your social score without having to generate content on the regular. You can go back to doing more quality vs having to placate the quality and quantity by looking for loops and gimmicks.

When I first joined this platform, I was filled with excitement. I saw it as a new opportunity to showcase my work and connect with a community of fellow artists. That's still my goal, and I'm eager to learn how to make the most of this platform.

Farcaster

Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

https://jacquec.cent.co/nft/14246 limited mint on @cent. Also, hello Fam! New to @warpcast here! Looking for pointers and tips on how to make the most of this new platform 💜🫶💜 sending love to all y’all. https://jacquec.cent.co/nft/14246

Farcaster

Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

Is there like a list somewhere for this social media experiment whatever it is that shows where one can put things in each channel cause I got a few like REVEL cards that I want to put out here but like I also avoiding that random MOD to “like it” pretty much making me feel like I put it in the wrong fucking place.

I went dark for a few months after this happened on the app and completely forgot about it until I had friends who finally used my code to join, and they brought me back into the platform. The damage went from mild to worse in a few months.

Bot or not, once told me I was a buildooor, and shortly after, without knowing it, my only guess is others in the channels started labeling my posts as spam.

Sharing too much art due to my excitement of diving back into the Warpcast scene, thinking I was sharing my creations and light with the world, and going from seeing the "top caster badge" on my profile to even being shadowed from my channel, I co-ran at the time /wac

Farcaster

Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

People in my own group /wac don't see me. Fix this /shadowban NOW https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/5c14d019-5f98-4a88-40ce-a2a491615400/original

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

Would participate tho you cannot see me so my home is the void the endless vaccum of space. @debbie come join me https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/52009929-1fad-437e-c6f9-e3d06e5d9900/original https://warpcast.com/debbie/0xa8f665df

When the world feels dark, and you seem to be in an endless pit, remember to stay true to who you are. Continue to sound your voice and make yourself heard. When you are looking for recognition, keep in mind screaming into the void, falling into the shadows, and continuing to be you. You are special and unique.

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

Trying so hard to keep pushing through. Each day I see the beauty of growth and I stay stagnant unmoving.

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

Even when @artjedi1 feels the same way I do and cannot see me https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/03e3110a-0240-4e95-8103-92a766b1d400/original

If you know someone from outside this app always reach out compassion can be found in many different places, @letsglitchit was one of the first to take her powerbadge and started to showcase other artists around after hearing my story. I was lucky enough for her to hear me on our Cohort9 group one day after seeing the beautiful art she always posts. I interacted with and was again unseen.

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

This seriously touches my heart I reached out to @letsglitchit through one of our group chats on the other app, asking if she saw my posts. I appreciate all that you’re doing for art and artists here. You are so beautiful; keep being authentic love how you're working on helping everyone get seen 💜 https://warpcast.com/letsglitchit/0x132463f8

@awedjob.eth, who has been a witness to my story the whole time, has been one of the only reasons I have been able to make it to this point and not give up. I seriously was about to abandon this primary account. I tried and made a secondary one that somehow ended up having even more issues of not being able to even keep the tips of less than 500 $degen that I had gotten that season since my friends accidentally tipped @jacquec's wallet, which was and still is different than my main account. At that moment, it made me realize even if I tried to start over, Warpcast wouldn't let me. My only option now was to lean in harder to my current FID and hope to break through.

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AwedJob on Warpcast

Have you been made invisible by the new “Priority Mode”? One thing you can do to help new users be seen is to recast their posts like I’m doing for the amazing and talented @jacque https://warpcast.com/jacque/0xac4dcae8

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

There are nefarious unfair practices on this platform they called “tests” it's affect unknown users and the devs are ignoring the plight they have made. How am I hidden from this whole platform https://warpcast.notion.site/Hide-97a31dcbc36e41a8b36f6e9b81e8c08a

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

Just was working on changing out the art in one of my pieces. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/00d28e32-052e-416b-a088-e2139b1fa100/original

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

Keep inspired going into this new week. Please DM me if y’all have any /wac art. Today's piece is by @squishna and thank you for yesterdays image @nomemorypixel this community is so talented thank you all for inspiring. Find any interesting news, contests, art please post it below. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/04ef9fb7-61c3-4ced-6fc5-cfbfa3f91e00/original

What I would post and pin in the channel to bring awareness to others artists within the community.

What the rest of the world saw when they went to the channel the same time and same day.

It became impossible, draining, and so disheartening that I honestly cried for a weeks time trying to help grow my community and not even being able to show my appreciation for others who were actively posting in our group channel trying to show support and validation to them when I was getting stifled by the algorithm without warning.

There were jokes in their ever-changing rulebook, so I know it exists and wish to high heaven that I could find it again where they were laughing and joking about NERFs (which are real and I have seen) and Shadowbans saying that it was test and only a test on their system.

Yet users got caught in the crosshairs. One could feel like they were locked into a void with no way out, and some still do; even with the ability to turn off Priority Mode, there are still a select few that choose not to do it at all since we are overrun with AI bot account, cyborg account (half and half human run and AI programmed) creators and what is deemed as spam posting.

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

@jacek IDK if you’d be able to help me get in contact with a dev. Somehow my account doesn't show up even in my group I corun /wac makes it extremely difficult to the point of impossible to engage. Any advice or an ear of a dev wrapped in a box would be helpful.

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

My CasterRank so on one place I only have 80 followers 1 79 I tried to make a new account to rectify that y'all took my tipped degen away from what is happening here? Why can no one help me fix these persistence issues? @dwr.eth now my @drakula won't sync as well. Do better please. I implore you. https://casterrank.app/frames/rank/weekly/195117

Even I was finally able to reach @debbie after asking a few times, and it made some of the biggest impacts, getting the start of my visibility outside my cozy corner here.

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Debbie Soon 🤗🎩 on Warpcast

Congratulations to today’s winners! Picked folks whom I’m newer to discovering - thank you for sharing your art journey with me ❤️ 🥇 @andreabalestrero 🥈 @jacque 🥉 @ticklish-art.eth See you tomorrow for more amazing art! https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/4eb2fcf9-3683-45e3-275e-24c16b1ca600/original

I was ever so grateful for the friends I brought along with me. Honestly, without them, I would have given up. Now, I'm working to do everything in my power while I can maintain it to give back to them and others unseen here. @josepe-matteo took degen out of his own wallet and not only found other artists for the community since his account had more visibility and not the issue of my shadowbanned account, but we also found so much inspiration from those who participated.

Throughout this whole time, I was still finding those who were my peers and inspirations. We chatted outside the app, and every answer was the same. They couldn't even find me when I gave them my user name for a search or see me under their posts unless they clicked into them directly when I sent them the links.

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Josepe-matteo.degen.eth on Warpcast

Contest time 1st 1000 $Degen 2nd 500 $Degen 5 50 $Degen This contest will be judged by @jacque. I will be doing the payouts. Requirements: -ANY piece of art for an entry. -Follow @jacque -due to tipping restrictions, you must be able to DM/DC a wallet address in order for me to send your prize. GOOD LUCK! https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a955425a-73eb-4494-b830-9469e787d100/original

Yet, despite all the pain, I kept working to give back and get my new friends into the same light that was slowly being shown.

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Jacque(she|her) on Warpcast

I have been blessed to co-run a group of creatives called /wac expanding my eye candy and just being genuinely inspired on the regular. One of my newfound fam @hanisart has really gotten me to all the feels and tbh their art is truly something else. https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/5e301cdf-33e7-4d34-6ced-41ae4f9cee00/original https://warpcast.com/debbie/0xc6913125

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Hani Naqi 🎩 on Warpcast

Thanks dear @debbie for choosing mine as a first winner , a million thanks @jacque for participating me on this contest 🫂🫀 Gm 💎 I just started a new amazing day🌻 https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/19ad11c0-e929-4dee-2b7d-638eba964500/original https://warpcast.com/debbie/0xc6913125

@hanisart is an amazing artist; I have fallen in love with her view and creativity. The second art contest win was an even larger honor since I got to pay it forward and support others on this platform.

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Debbie Soon 🤗🎩 on Warpcast

AI art is art. Congratulations to today’s winners 🖤 🥇 @aoifeodwyer 🥈 @jacque 🥉 @erikx https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e8d70163-aa66-4d25-95b0-29b3839bb300/original

Then, months later, that day finally arrived. I was in the middle of an interview with @sinfulmeatstick, and we were discussing my art journey for over 30 years and how I came to be on came to be behind the NFT. It may have been even longer if we hadn't gone onto the /wac channel in our discussion, and I got to talk about myself and others who inspire me every day. I had to bring my face in so close to the screen and saw a purple check mark by my name. I almost started crying out of pure joy, knowing that this was hopefully the sign of times changing and that if there was hope for me, everyone who radiates authenticity could also find this.

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SinfulMeatStick on Warpcast

Join us at MetaOneDesigns HQ for another episode of Beyond The NFT!!! This week's special guest will be @jacque!! Event post: https://decentraland.org/events/event/?id=a3e158dc-001d-4e80-819d-696d119c7d71 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sinfulmeatsticks Kick: https://kick.com/SinfulMeatStick https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/4026c3d8-2874-4066-623f-b8d0ad081600/original https://decentraland.org/events/event/?id=a3e158dc-001d-4e80-819d-696d119c7d71

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squishna 🎩 on Warpcast

Honoring our latest Power Badger. Thanks for all you do @jacque Live the dream! I couldn’t choose which one for you, so I’m sending both. @paybot 100000 $GRND https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/161e4a9a-fe15-42a5-e0a8-fb5da67f4500/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/16f040c5-4a4c-4113-9912-7db456473e00/original

Yet the battle still rages on every week. I see outstanding artists with pure and original content lose their badges. It's not a guarantee, and any week, I could fall back down. Warpcast can be very needy for attention, and even if you are genuine and putting your most authentic best foot forward, it doesn't mean that the algorithm agrees. There needs to be a more mutable solution that helps validate foxl to create fostering all walks of life in this world.

Everything is an art form, and everyone is an artist. Art is what we live and breathe from the nature around us, which gets things done in its own time, and no one asks it to rush to the code that is written, helping the world bridge boundaries and create the sites that we marveled at daily.