GM Farcaster ep244 Monday May 12, 2025 plus CastOut begins

first thing in the morning monday g m g m for

it's 08:30 somewhere yeah we're on a little later today we're out at 11:30 and we did see you tropics hanging out at 08:30 we're sorry we're sorry that you missed the memo but we are here and it is monday and we have a lot of exciting things to jump into we're gonna do some news we're gonna talk about some interesting metas happening in farcaster and then we're going to be talking oh bert bert is listening on his walk are you walking and talking is my question and yeah so we're gonna get started and we'll be back in just forty seconds

or just dropping by we've got the latest buzz

gm farcaster it is monday may 12 and you are here with nowdashprop and adrian ford twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day and then i think ted's going to be popping by and we're going to talk about cast out and we're going to announce the first challenge and i'm super excited and i need to tweet this really quick

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okay good good so off today i have been very busy this morning getting finishing up some things for cast out i am definitely a little preoccupied but we've got some news to talk about first before we get to that so let's dive in and this is from brad q who keeps us on track with twenty nine seconds of farcaster news by the way you can subscribe to that and get that into your inbox twenty nine seconds of farcaster what did i what did you miss this weekend this should have been a twenty nine second walk and talk quiet weekend but notable exceptions like matthew releasing far poker which i just saw right before we jumped on gm farcast released the fred wilson farcon interview and chime released acid test number three for farcon new york two great resources for improving your fc account vcast a video of him reviewing 10 fc accounts that is full of valuable insight and jay prefernieto took kate cornish's seven part challenge for fc accounts to lose this fan label and grow and created a mini app all of these we're gonna be sharing shortly ted offered some hard truths that spurred a lot of discussion and could spur stir more con good combo if not forgotten this week in mini apps with linda featured pay per view and adrian and now just professor going west coast friendly time at 11:30am eastern and cast out starts today thank you brad q for that amazing summary that is always so helpful a couple other things this final reminder from v hubs are going away soon if you're running hubs please dm dynamite d u i n e m y t e because we wanna make sure that you move over to snapchain so make sure you do that yeah dynamite love that great handle i regret i regret all my life choices when i see somebody's really good handle and i'm like should've done something like that woj

worth more than my handle from new on warpcast mini app notifications grouping and disabling so new notives still go to the top of the priority stack but take only one slot per app versus taking over your whole page also if an app feels like too much for you you can disable the notifications straight from the settings page shout out to alvez de tiago and warpcast admin and phil and other devs who push mini app notice to the limits yeah you think just a little bit this is all your fault borodouch it's something we hear often so you know i'm sure voradach is perfect for load testing of all the things including just farcaster in general so thank you voradach thank you for your service this from bryce maybe come on here we go alright yeah it's gonna be that kind of day i can feel it say g monad g monad to clanker to deploy a monad testnet token spend your testnet mon to buy your favorites connect to the mini app by clicking your profile on the top right add the mini app and we'll notify you when we add a sell button g monad clanker deploy clang clang i still haven't figured out where my mon tokens are because they're not in my warplet so i'm not sure i'm assuming that they're in my main account so i haven't i haven't had time to figure this out but you deployed one correct

oh really

yeah i was looking to approve anything

with my warp my warplet so i have to figure out where

okay

okay alright so we have some learning to do but i assume that you go into the frame like view clanger and buy it there i would assume but oh because then it's asking my preferred wallet so it's probably if i do it maybe with my preferred wallet it'll let me i'm not sure

yeah that's where i'm having a problem too i'm getting connect wallet to place trade and it's not letting me so we have a few little little little bugs but and also all the images look like that

yeah your squirrel is not there it's this and i don't know why so

clanker's had a rough week it's only been a week someone go check on him go check on clanker he is a little sad i noticed that too i mean literally if you look at his responses he seems a little sad

yes he's a

i think at one point he actually used the word melancholic yeah

i'm a little concerned little concerned about you clinker we're a little worried this from the okay this is gonna be one of those things today one second while i while i fix some things i'm gonna get rid of some stuff and hopefully this will free up some memory to act normal

yeah you want

wow what's breaking news yes

no on base

i gotta go do limit orders wow we knew this day would happen

hundred and seventy i think i don't know we gotta go look i gotta go find his last one hold on that's amazing it's you know i i am so impressed with the estacrypto's just tenacity unbelievable tenacity it's been quite impressive so congratulations yes to crypto

days i know that's incredible

incredible we're gonna miss it i know i don't want you to stop maybe they'll hire you just keep doing doing things for them yeah a hundred and seventy eight hundred and seventy eight days this was today's and also every single one was different like yeah it was incredibly impressive so congratulations you've worked hard you do you've earned it i hope they i hope they appreciate what you've done

alright moving on this from v what makes base and six other change nice what makes an account inauthentic we're considering a new labeling system for inauthentic accounts these accounts often incorrectly called bots will be hidden from like counts and other metrics in warpcast inauthentic accounts give real people the ick because they're clearly trying to get value for their account at the expense of everyone else on the network we're looking for input from the community on behaviors that make an account inauthentic it's important that the behavior is specific and deterministic like follows 100 plus users in five minutes has the same pfp as a thousand other accounts tags 100 plus users asking them to follow back yeah i really hate that please avoid suggestions that are subjective or hard to evaluate post pictures copied from the internet hard to evaluate post slop or uninteresting content subjective we'll use these rules to guide our machine learning model to find inauthentic accounts quickly the actual model may look at many more facts than just these rules but they will be a good starting point so any thoughts on this adrienne this is kind of a new approach to what we sometimes refer to as spam but can be other things so i think this is interesting

too like in the past week with a couple and i'm like this is straight up brad brad's content i'm like

yeah i yeah i've had periods of time where you can feel

i i mostly call them engagement farmers where they're kind of taxing your time with questions that are easily answered elsewhere things like that i i can't explain it though but i don't know how to capture that in a metric that can be measured

but i know it when i see it kind of thing

yeah

right

so there you go

i made my first block i might have to i only have one real block i've had others that were like bots and things like that that i've that i've blocked this was fun to see from fred wilson hi casters i posted the talk that dwr and i did at barcon to avc.xyz this morning so you can take a look and you can watch it right in the app so you can just jump right into the paragraph mini app and you'll see the video embedded in there as well as on all the farcaster gm farcaster channels so very exciting so that was nice to see thanks for posting that fred

i am not surprised

i like them apples i am not surprised whatsoever because it is it i've said this in all the places if you watch one thing from far con even if you were there go back and watch this because it's really really good this also coming out from far con here it is this is from chime a very special farcon nyc episode of acid test is out now featuring over 40 interviews with many of you on the ground in brooklyn nyc ps everyone i spoke to is on the split which is so cool every mint puts eth usdc in your pocket if you're featured on the show so that is really fun i haven't had a chance to listen to this yet have you

oh how was it

i gotta go and give that a listen while i'm doing some other stuff this afternoon it was really fun to chat with him we were in the bunk bedroom at the crazy after say more yeah but you know what i'm talking about in the crazy place

the camping room yeah

at this after party in this crazy place so we're in this like sitting on a on a wooden bench in in the bunk bedroom

it was so funny

you in the camper oh he didn't he never found you oh

yeah incredible i listened to the first one i have not got to this one yet but it's really good so go give it a listen

i know

why are you asking me

this is seriously

you're exactly what you're saying on this show

why is that why you put it on me

that's our our mini app's on the bottom

i was like oh the col clonoroid we need more we're gonna have more kids than just the just the three but absolutely yeah the mini app's on the floor dead dead but we'll get there it'll happen it'll happen i swear this is v here's me reviewing some fc profiles and telling people how to improve their engagement and this is super useful he went through specific profiles and had some great suggestions so if you are i think everyone should listen to this but especially if you feel like you don't have enough followers whatever you know issue that you feel you're having you're not getting enough engagement or that you're getting labeled as spam or anything like that go give this a listen this is coming directly from me so very this is coming directly from the person who labels people as spammers so that's what he has to say yeah yeah trustworthy source trustworthy source you're never gonna get a better a better critique this from jp frenetto a few weeks ago kate cornish wrote a seven part series of writing about farcaster onboarding incredible stuff i saw it and thought this could be a mini app so this is the mini app thoughts feedback she will share it formally on monday so let's consider that as a deadline which would be today so if you have any if you want to check this out and have any feedback go do that asap because apparently they're finalizing some things but very cool so especially if you are again another opportunity if you feel like you've been labeled as spam or shadow banned or whatever whatever thing you're feeling go check this out it's super helpful and thanks to all who do fun things like this this was really cool a map of the cloud predicted the pope i love that bellagio co casted this but this was leonard in network states before the conclave bocconi ran a network conclave sim graph theory only no ai no divine signals divine signals many many many interpretations of that they surfaced robert provost as a top node days later pope leo the fourteenth eigenvector status between this in infoflow coalition's emergent power the vatican didn't run this the network did leadership emerges from structure not hierarchy forget hierarchy observe the graph this reminded me of the different graphs that kbc used to do and thinking about different connections and different networks and again this to me like i said this last week but conclave is just a dao and as bruce said you can take it to network state but it's the same thing but that is really interesting because no he was not mentioned anywhere you saw people mentioning the top likely popes he was never mentioned like not once did i see him mentioned and this is if but if you had looked at this you would have so very interesting yeah any thoughts i just thought this was very cool very cool to see

so cool so interesting yeah it's just like just very cool and he's this one right here and he's like the biggest node on here one of the biggest ones so and

no i think it's more other types of connections between them as well so go give it a go give it go give it a look it's really interesting very interesting okay moving on henlo i'm guinness 13.5 years young raised by my mama debbie i forgot to follow new new follow this is my first time on the internet and on chain mom is still teaching me how to interact with humans online but i'm a quick learner follow me i'm hoping to learn some new tricks soon and apparently you got tipped by a dog so i just got 25¢ from a dog it's something you only hear on broadcaster it's amazing how often you can hear that so this is really funny that yes so the dog tipped you 0.25 i guess because it was mother's day and is guinness dog an ai

okay interesting interesting ai i haven't dove into this so

debbie's dog

real money amazing

oh that's funny alright so the dog is the dog is operating on their own that is really funny i like that they tagged tagged your kiddos too so that's kind of funny amazing and so dogs are out here tipping and i'm just like every time i look at my dog i'm like do something do go make some money your treats are expensive go go do something

yeah

i mean he's just not interested at all he's not interested in crypto i don't know if you played this mini word yet but i love this from me he's gotta be cheating sloke apparently got it in ten seconds which i find that hard to believe this is the mini crossword which is really fun i just saw this for the first time i guess it had been around for like ten days and i had just seen it for the first time really fun very cute and i suck at it which i've discussed before that i'm really bad at word games

yeah

why

okay

like oh no wanna open it

so that's

there you go now well now now you can go

it's really it's it is fun i have to say it is cute it's fun it's very similar to yes the mini crossword but the the timer does start when you hit when you hit start so don't don't hit start unless you're ready so i'm not gonna do it right now but it is fun and go see if you can beat sloke in ten seconds he's gotta be cheating i agree v he's gotta be cheating there's no way

do you have any like one of the hardest things for this cast out has been trying to decide which games as opposed to previous cast outs where it was like please give me games or is begging

hot potato hot potato that that was good hot potato was fun all right we've got a couple more things and then we are gonna jump into all things casto and i think ted will be joining us around noon this was the big meta happening on the timeline we have jeff posted this jeff x y z jeff how old are you me this is my high school cell phone and this sparked some interaction some people kind of kind of liked this started so apparently he found this like hanging around and just decided to cast it this led to dan cell phone senior year this was his cell phone which led to cassie's cassie how old are you this is my high school cell phone by the way love it love the sparkle absolutely love the sparkle which led to adrienne how old are you this is my high school phone we're now removing the word cell

was an earpiece oh really

like so two people you could be like like conference call like three way call but you're the same your

this is hilarious

i love it i love it this was my high school phone literally

so long this was hanging this is in this one was in our kitchen and the cord was so long you could go from the kitchen into the living room which was the next room over and sit like on the like it was you could and you have to every once in a while undo it and drop it and hold it down and let it unspin because it would get all twisted up so yeah so also yeah this is so this is my high school phone and then this was hilarious my cell phone through high school i was like yes cat cartel yes also yes we actually use pay phones in college i had like a calling card and that's how i called home because we did not have phones in our rooms yeah they were like down the hall yeah it was crazy craziness we had

i think you know what now that i think about i think i did but it didn't have long distance on it or something weird right

i had to go use the calling card at the payphone so i remember that it was a little like phone booth

i mean i'm assuming you're calling somebody collect and telling them to pick you up

yep

i just always had the dime with me you needed a dime that's why dropping a dime on somebody that's where that comes from you're putting a dime in the payphone oh you're dropping a dime yeah

no you're dropping a dime once and you're you're turning them in you're turning them in yeah you're turning turning turning them in yeah so that happened so jeff yes

lmao the high school cell phone thing caught on just stumbled upon it in a juncture the power of qc is wild here i will say that when we like a meta we really like a meta so

us yesterday not everybody wait wait that's not true that's not true there was also walk and talks

there was also walk and talk

okay we are not listening to these but i just wanna shout out nick because this is walk and talks 27 he's been doing this for a while this time he had a friend with him and then all of a sudden all these other all these other guys decided they were also gonna walk and talk so the whole feed is like this the walk and talk happening so we have dan dan did a couple that were pretty interesting he did one on stablecoins also then there was tldr did one dylan did one there was a bunch so this was funny from ted first every man made a blog then every man made twitter threads next every man made a podcast now every man will make a walk and talk

it's true and then keckers has some advice for your walk and talks put a little put a title on top that lets people know roughly what it's about keep and hold it for the first two to five seconds captions are non negotiable and i think you can see that from this he does his little walk and talk 27 but also you could add a little bit more detail here dan did good with the with the captions that was helpful in a little detail at the top here so there you go and but also can i just say my favorite walk and talk 0x designer

looking good looking good best man best looking man in curb toe there you go

there you go there he is it's adorable so funny

sure please do

you gotta

but i do think it's smart to do i have enjoyed nyx over the past 27 walk and talks i think it you know gary vee has done this for years where he'll just do this on his way into the office or whatever so it's not it's not new but it's kind of fun to see people experimenting with it and if it if it vibes for you and it's a good way to capture some if it vibes for you and it's a good way to capture some thoughts i think go ahead and do it also if you're smart you'll do it and you have a beta option with the coinbase wallet i'd probably do it over there just in case it might give you more of a bump i think it doesn't matter

but

in portrait in portrait yeah in portrait mode

we are so bad at we are very very bad at

i guess so i don't think i'll be walking and talking but i might like sit somewhere nice and talk or something

sorry go ahead wait we're both oops where was it go ahead i'm sorry

yeah we love arjun bravo and then i didn't know this oh 0x designer's walk and talk was my flockin request that's amazing so flockin is like farcaster cameo where you can request videos and i still haven't been able to get it to work right

gotta i gotta reach out to you and get that figured out but like you can do like you know somebody can request say hi to

yeah yeah

go check it out

all right we are gonna shift gears

into cast out mode i was hoping that ted ted was gonna get here in time but she is not here so we're gonna start without her but i'm gonna do one quick little thing we're gonna do a quick little outro and then we are gonna restart and this will just make it easier editing for me later so we're gonna be back we're gonna reset and we'll be back in thirty seconds

okay we're back and we have a very special guest who we're gonna bring up to the stage right now ted's here ted is joining us for the launch of cast out and at noon every day this week and next week through thursday through monday through thursday we are going to have a cast out show at noon we decided just to roll in from the new show into this for today and so excited to launch this next season cast out lil island and i do wanna shout out before we start our sponsors for cast out prize pool sponsors are lil noun stout octon and purple putting 3 eth into the prize pool and then dgen who is our rewards sponsor so rewards challenges will be giving out some dgen and ted the winner of crypto the game is here to launch this with us who also played in the very first cast out so welcome we're so excited to be here

oh my god i'm just kidding i'm just kidding

i so wish i had the oj's ready to go right now i would love a little best ever i didn't know oh my god that's so funny yes

it's just a game that's so funny so yeah so adrian made it into the finals of the very first cast out with tony hawk winning and but ted ted was hang on there as long as she can but she had a target on her back from day one because she was a crypto the game finalist so they were coming for you right from the beginning there was just no way there was no way that's why we you know that was one of the reasons that i there was a couple of reasons that i shifted it to more of a tribe game in the second season because i felt like that part of it was more fun for people than the individual part so that's why i wanted to keep that going longer and it feels less personal

take it less personally and then garrett was our second winner in season two so this information might be useful to you at some point so you know it's good just thought i'd mention it so if you are one of the players we announced the players today i'm very excited so let me share that with everybody because it's it's fun to see who signs up we had a few people i could not accommodate they kind of applied late and but i have like two tribes already ready for the next one so which is fun and the goal of cast out is to show off as many things that are happening on farcaster as we can so we'll see how that all plays out over the next few days and so here it is cast out little island starts today at noon et we'll officially launch on gm farcaster and we'll share the first challenge which i'm gonna do it just a few minutes thank you to our sponsors which i've already done let's meet our tribes we have the lils we have a couple tribes from lil nounds lils and lilsock gang to just distinguish the two purple dv which is degen veteran cast me outside which that was the name picked by burberry and her crew good news which is a good news studio rachel w and maya and lil fun which has a couple little nouners on it and i needed another name so first up the lil nouns tribe we have zal pip 0x samir tree girl and chompix chompix that's a

great tribe so we got all new players for cast out but there are some gaming ringers in there and at least one played crypto the game so chompix chompix it's all on you buddy the second team lil sock gang is mike good fatty but happy index card sasquatch and bix byte so this one's going to be interesting you got sasquatch who's a former pro esports player you got a couple artists in here those could that could be useful we got index card who's who can he can he can vibe code and bixbyte who is infamous

tenacity that is unmatched

yes

she got eliminated yeah she won her way back in one time mhmm and then the other time she kept buying back in and kept getting voted out and it was actually really amusing yeah you can't buy your way back in so you're gonna have to do it with skill purple so we've got a purple tribe all members of purple kyle patrick c corella jackie ice toad eth and oddjob and there's nobody who knows more about farcaster than this tribe this may or may not come in handy we'll see and of course if there's an origami challenge oddjob has got it locked up spoiler alert there's no origami challenge but if there was he would have it he was the one doing the origami d gen hats and they were incredible i ended up with one myself this is our next tribe is we have a cast out veteran and actual veteran in the dv dgen veterans tribe so we've got dgen veteran z willow janica the dude and offline and dgen veteran is the one who likes to rock some socks so i was like i don't know he might end up voting for lil' sock gang who knows if he's if he gets out then we have cast me outside this is let me tell you these are some players these guys are they come to play and they play hard we've got jc warp cost plants nft aka catwalk the king of the catwalk trace it tracy it and burberry so a couple of cast out veterans jc and burberry both played before and i literally spent a lot of time looking through far card far farcade games where jc was not at the top of the leaderboard i think i managed it i think i found one so we're ready for today we've got the good news tribe with rachel w amelie our friend from the library jesse jean jesse fries red cat aka brock and big bear mama and we've got jesse has played before and brock is a gamer he's the one who created the borgon trail which we used in cast out last time so you know couple couple of good ones here and rachel's a great yapper but that may or may not be helpful yeah it's not really that helpful

help you out it doesn't help and then we have the maya tribe asha alitak annamale millibu and iatima and they're newbies to cast out but they were in a less friendly time zone but they are ready to just be vampires is what they've said they're just gonna go into vampire mode and be awake and be ready to go and then our last tribe i'm just calling it a little fun i gave them the option to change the name they haven't given me one yet so we have john ruth natalie crew genuine jack aomide and dummy dottie dummy did play last time and he was pretty good especially in basketball so we got a couple little nouners and dummy who's a cast out veteran so this is going to be an interesting tribe as well so we are ready to go this is going to be the new player buff i got to get it out to everybody and i'm excited so ted you probably know more than anyone about playing games like this as the winner of season three crypto the game what is your advice to the players

and so

are and some aren't

no some are some are mixed group or some are maybe they're all in purple but they may not know each other well so still an opportunity yeah

yep for sure and speaking of are you ready for the first challenge you ready to hear about the first challenge

are you guys ready in the in the comments section in the chat are

there's no no polymarket on it but speaking of i believe tldr will be with us tomorrow to talk about a little something so we'll see speaking of polymarket okay chompix is ready chompix is ready all right here we go here is your first challenge

so here we go flappy nouns it is this is a brand new parkade game it just came out i think like a week ago or something as part of a challenge and i played it i'm awful at it i'm also awful at flappy bird in general i don't know why but it's really cute it's really fun there's multiple settings so you can play different noun heads and different pipes so you can check out and see which one's better you know might practice a little bit you can only post one score so once you post your score you're done so make sure it's your best score so one score post one score i'm like

can play as many times as you want

we were like oh no it's actually quite easy to get 300

to get above 300

of a mental game than in addition to having to play the game yeah so i would say take a look at the leaderboard see like where things end up and figure out how you can so i don't wanna take it on the leaderboard because other one other people can play so you're going to need to share your score share the one score that you feel confident about and that's going to be the one that you that gets put into your team average so that's the way we're going to do it and good luck good luck all

so fun it's gonna be fun last

no we've never done a flappy bird one no we did something else we did the basketball one we've done and we did yoink but yoink is currently not operational so i was hoping that horse facts might switch that up but it didn't didn't end up happening in time so we've never done flappy bird before but there was i think crypto the game did like the first was it the second one or the first one ted did you have to play flappy bird for your second season or was it maybe it was first season there was one season with

okay

yeah

oh right okay yep and then last time it was pinball and what was the other one there was one other thing oh for crypto oh but the breaker brick breaker

yeah so amide you're going to share it publicly as a cast and then you can drop that cast into your island your your group dc but i'll make sure that everyone's aware as soon as i get off of this stream i'm going to be making sure to share all of this in your group chats to make sure everybody's clear on the rules and it's going to be a lot of fun oh it does i tried that and i didn't it wasn't working for me okay maybe i tried the wrong one i'll go check it out all right and with that everybody that's it so ted

too early too early for predictions but i think you had some good advice have fun is the best advice have fun can i delete all of those chompix if you played before it only counts if you play today so don't worry about it so we'll i'll tell you when you're when it's official it'll be official when we when i hit start which will be like in two minutes or three minutes and i drop into your gcs and then anything from that point that you share that's your official one all right and with that everyone we're gonna call it here we'll be back tomorrow at noon for cast out again we'll reveal everything that happened with flappy nouns we'll reveal the next challenge which will be an elimination challenge this one is a reward challenge so each of the winning tribe members will win 5,000 degen not a tip an actual the actual degen will be sent to your wallet so very exciting anything else adrienne or ted before we before we wrap for for today

have fun everybody

have fun have fun just a

yeah alright everyone thanks so much for being here ted we're excited to have you helping us out with our commentary and we'll have a few other guest commentators popping in from time to time as well this is gonna be so much fun so get ready everybody to outwit outplay outcast here we go and with that outlast outlast outlast love who's

someone's gonna make it alright buh bye