i think we are live gm farcaster it is monday october 16 i'm like what day is it 2023 and we are here bringing you twenty one minutes of farcaster news and you know maybe some other news from around the the the web three averse i'm still trying to make sure we are live but yep we are we are we are okay so gm this is we are full on permissionless we've been here for we're getting on almost a week so that's kind of the big news right now is that we are seeing you know not a huge spike really like it's been kinda quiet but we you know one of the things dan asked was checking in post permission list what's going well what's not going well and if you were in charge what would you be doing differently so let's start there what would you do differently anything or things going well
yeah same
just
no major spam
say a gloomiest amount of spam i'm not really seeing much spam at all i'm not really seeing images i don't wanna be seeing i
some squatting accounts i think we're seeing yep people mess around with f names and and grabbing you know company names and brands
did see a little
and just one vitalik imposter
i think so too i really haven't seen any major issues almost like too quiet but i also think social media overall is distracted by bigger issues right now and so i think there is a little bit of a less attention being paid to sort of you know lesser important things but we think it's important and i think yeah so far so good no major spamming gm chris co created we see you down there
yeah so so far so good i did think it was really interesting and this brings me to my to my next thing is that flink was the big like winner here like where more people signed up for flink than warpcast and i thought that was fascinating
i have
it okay the thing i'm looking at is farcaster onboarding by app and on that particular day four days ago they had more yeah they had more
yeah it was so crazy right that was the weirdest thing so they had more signups and then they did just release two new features videos and cast threads so you can embed a video on flank and it'll show up in warpcast as a link and then you can also create threads so a series of cast as well so couple new features but it it's kind of weird because it it tells you to go the desktop is a better experience and i actually think it embeds better on mobile on flank so for the video embeds but try it out if you've been dying for video there you go i've just tried it a couple times just to see what the difference was so when i saw this like sign up i'm like what's the difference but i am comfortable with warpcast so i slide back to my regulars you know i i slide back to the the place where i'm comfortable but i do like to try out the different interfaces just to see you know maybe i'm missing something i wanna you know try it out especially when i see oh video let me check that out but we still got some ways to go here so i think that i think i'll i'll be sticking with warpcast how about you have you tried other alternatives and are there any that you really like
okay
so probably six months ago anything that was out there i was trying is flink it's funny because in this world you don't get the official here are the apps and this is right you just see them kind of pop up in your feed and it takes like when do you notice that everyone seems to be talking about flink today what is it it's still in test flight as a mobile app i think
think so it might be it might still be a test flight yeah
so my personal you know just based on my own bandwidth i've kind of decided it's like you know we all there's so much fomo too and it's like oh is everyone moving to flink when i see something still on test flight i take a breather and say okay maybe i don't need to go try i don't need to be the first 10
people yeah to try yep and i you know there's i think there's sometimes it's fun and sometimes it's good to try things like far farquest is another one and farquest like i don't think of that as like an alternative but it really is so that was another one and i recently got the i completed my influencer request i didn't realize that so it let me claim an influencer little thing or whatever so it's it's kinda like that to me is another way for people to onboard and it can help them actually walk through the process so i can definitely understand that one as an option for somebody who's brand new and i think it's good to have these alternatives for folks who are you know wanting a different front end experience especially like i've heard a lot of people say i want this to look more like reddit so you know that's giving you some alternatives and things like that for you know those who want it but i kinda like warpcast the way it is so i'm good so i'm i'm sticking with i'm sticking with it but we'll keep trying the new things just just to see maybe i'll you know you never know you never know the video thing might get me it just might be the thing that gets me
and i am conflict and i am conflicted just because i do as a i call you know as a good citizen of the farcaster protocol and ecosystem we wanna support alternative clients we wanna support builders i want every i wanna try everything and give feedback and and encourage absolutely you know everyone building but i also have to protect my own time and bandwidth and as we grow there's gonna be more and more people trying things so i have to recognize i don't it doesn't have to necessarily be me
so it yeah and it's funny because the because noun started talking about doing a noun's client that would sit on top of farcaster and i'm like okay you're gonna have me one more thing i'm gonna have to check like can you guys just stay here because then i don't have to like check one more thing so i had that same kind of thought
yeah it's really just it's a gamified way to onboard so you can earn different digital i don't wanna call them badges because sometimes they're things they can be nfts or things like that so there's a little cat and things like that that you can collect so it's it's a game like way to you know learn about farcaster i have not completed the school there's like a farquest school now and there's a version two of this and i have not done that so mine have been things i was doing and then i got like a little you get this notification saying you've completed this quest or that quest and you get something in your wallet so on farquest so it's really kinda cute so it's really a different way to approach a a front end rather than you know thinking about features it was thinking about education and onboarding which i think was a good approach i do see some comments in here opencast is another one but i'm getting used to warpcast and oh he's in an android so it is still a tough slide the ios bias is real that is true that is really true and yes farquest is really a thing just looking through our our comments here it so it's and it's kind of fun so i definitely would say check it out you probably have already earned a whole bunch of things because if you have certain number of followers certain number it's like really designed for somebody starting at zero to sort of earn some badges so you'll probably start with a few things right off the bat so kind of fun kind of a fun thing yeah we'll have to like highlight all these different ones at different times these different front ends as they come up one other thing i wanna jump into like here's the biggest news of the week really new farcaster ama series and first up is vitalik and that is happening wednesday wait a minute tuesday i'm so confused i'm confused that's tuesday october 17 at 5pm pacific but it's also i think it's utc i think the utc time is throwing me off here so it is
it's wednesday for someone it's wednesday for some of you it's tuesday for us and it is at 5pm pacific so 2pm eastern so have you here's a big question have you come up with any questions for vitalik yet
8pm eastern oh i went the wrong way sorry 8pm eastern yeah sorry wrong direction 8pm eastern questions for vitalik anyone anyone who's got a good one what should we ask vitalik what are you thinking
i have to ask something about dows and network states or something along those lines so i think the network state question would be a good one you know what does he think about you know what what do you think about network states and what does farcaster count as one is what i'd really love to dig into or is it developing into one could it be one i guess it's a better question yeah what are your thoughts on that
no on like asking for the ama for vitality
i don't know on the amas i always love to ask not personal personal questions but kind of the the non obvious one i mean he's writing about ethereum and and kind of the obvious so i just love to find the other sides of people so i don't know what question i would i don't know what question i would ask and i also am excited to just pull up a coffee and read read everybody else's questions
yeah that'll be interesting
and are you just saying really like was saying more than any other like influencer of people who have kind of mass followings elsewhere is really be engaging like i'm like earnestly and often it seems like and more and more in farcaster so that's very welcome
yeah i definitely have seen that as well like if you want to actually you know interact with him your best bet is on farcaster honestly like in an organic manner like where you're not you know you know where you could just be having a conversation and i do think that is what makes it a little bit special too in general that you do have these interactions with people that elsewhere you probably couldn't even you know get they wouldn't even see your replies because they're so so overwhelmed you know what else i was thinking too like along your lines to get to know him better would be asking him about which channels he follows which are his favorite channels because that could be that could lead to some interesting follow-up
i was i just meant like that would be a good way to figure out more about his interests you know what i mean
go ask it right now
it go take credit for it it was
based on your idea okay i wanna know about alex now i wanna know i decided about alex north star oh so instead of kind of asking in the in the short term what where his energy and focus is on what's what's this north star
that's a great question
oh that's great i love that that's an excellent question write that down don't forget giving you credit provenance right now you heard it it was recorded
write it for adrian's awesome okay so one other thing i wanted to jump on was a little bit about outcasters and alexgrover said one of the best feelings on fc is getting an image featured on outcasters i don't know which one was his but there were some really cool really beautiful images that were in here today including this amazing o g n f t of course but also some of the other drops that happened for permissionless day there were some really nice ones there was a great one by is it oxen i think that one's oxen that i really loved that was amazing and there were some other
photos in here but there were some beautiful like images towards the end of the outcasters that were i don't know if one of these was alexgrover's but they were really beautiful so i saw a few in here that were pretty amazing so whoever these photographers are amazing work is all i can say so
yeah some incredible incredible photos and then of course i think those are sam's nails i think her nails made it also into the outcast feed so i just scrolled through those which i thought was hilarious so yeah so what were your thoughts on the this week's outcasters you're still in the top 10 but we had a new leader we had a new head of the head of the pack
dawufi beating out everybody at the top there now yeah
no no
no i meant number one
how did that happen oh yeah he was taking the victory he was taking a victory lap on that too
alright i know more than dwr more than vitalik i mean more than a countless
okay that's amazing i am obsessed with outcasters it's like how many weekly emails do i get just consistently
it's right
such a pleasure to get in my inbox the variety of like i just love the images and the variety and to be able like there are some serious talented yeah photographers
like big time
and i love the always the diversity i'm going to be curating one of these coming up at some point and i gotta say i'm nervous like how can i how can i represent it's like there's lot of pressure to to make that look good but if you're not getting outcasters like highly endorse it i and think it's a lot of effort right it's one of those things that reminds me what dan says of like do things that don't scale and i know things like that even going back if you remember this week in farcaster
was also an attempt it's people are doing these things it's a lot of like just labor and effort but it's it's nice and special so thank you
i you know that's funny that you mentioned the this week in farcaster part too so i was scrolling back to that part too and i clicked on jack's what is a pivotal moment that changed the trajectory of your life and it was really interesting that was a really interesting thread going back a year to read what people wrote in there and i thought that was fascinating so i really liked that i love that this week in and then clicking on some of those and and checking out what people said is really really good
referring to right this week last year last which was part of abstractors yes i was referring to twif which was a purple funded newsletter recap that they that was sunset because it was you know it was a lot of work and hard to measure the results we have i know we only have a few more minutes but yes i'm confused because when i click on the this week last year
mhmm mine opens up in searchcaster mhmm
so it shows me all the replies to that message when i'm in searchcaster
yeah it was really interesting and it was a really interesting way to get to know some people
out how we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna fix it in post we didn't really do that but okay but we'll over time we'll we'll fix it in post but it was really yeah i just thought that was really interesting so it's an a nice feature of outcasters is when you click on those things that they're showing you from a year ago you can actually see like the replies and stuff like that so i found that really fun i have to check-in in our on our chat here i think after yesterday's only scales with guests or community curators yeah probably that's probably a good way good way to go accountless must have been away yes i believe accountless must have been on vacation or something because that was kind of funny that yeah dawufi kind of swooped in there and he's taken some some victory laps i did want to just share one other like just fun cast from cameron that i just thought was hilarious and it was basically him being awoken by his cat gm me asleep cat the great famine continues it has been eons since we have last had any sustenance and it appears that no respite is on the horizon we endure the pain and suffering of our bleak existence because we have no choice nothing can ever ameliorate our misery chomps my elbow so i now understand why he is the channel lead for the cats channel it makes sense now it really does somebody suggested that his cat should write a book i would agree this cat has a great handle on vocabulary and should definitely write a book so that is it for me what anything else that we should chat about before we call it a day
we could talk all day i've given up on being able to feel like i have a like a wrap on everything that's happening in the ecosystem but it's possible i've been loving the the permissionless vibes all weekend and i like starting monday morning at gm forecaster yes i've noticed you've not been drinking your coffee
what happened it's right here i wasn't drinking a mhmm
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good to see you yeah we love oh it's y b y b yeah yeah i usually goes by y b on on broadcaster and recently joined purple and builderdao so why be welcome welcome to the dawness we're glad you're here and welcome to gm farcaster and that's it for us that is it twenty one minutes goes by really fast we will be back on wednesday with more fun for you all so have a fabulous monday and we'll be looking for your cast and get ready to ask vitalik some fun questions so gm farcaster everybody bye bye