GM Farcaster ep144 Monday August 19, 2024 with guest @mazmhussain

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Everyone opted in, fwiw A consistent piece of feedback from people with large audiences on Twitter but were early on Farcaster (because I knew them): "Farcaster is great, but I forget to post there" So this is an experiment to syndicate their content to Farcaster. May take some time for people to start responding, but certainly the next time they open the app up they will have a full notifications feed and hopefully some thoughtful content. If "casts with no chance of reply" is how you're viewing this, i.e. it's a negative, just don't follow an account or if you're seeing recasts, mute them. The pragmatic view: still a higher chance that an account replies to you on Farcaster than on Twitter. That's just reality.

Warpcast Experiment: X-Posting A few users who were active on X but not FC were invited to cross post. We want to see if cross posting makes them more likely to engage with Farcaster (beyond the cross post). If that happens, we'll roll it out more broadly. If it doesn't we may pause it.

I have been skeptical of the reported usage numbers on Twitter and suspected they were overstated. But even if accurate the simple fact is that the quality of information has plummeted. I say this in a firsthand way that I can no longer find reportable information or sources on Twitter since its transformation.

cross posing fc vs twitter thread (see above) some pain points (maybe unjustified!) from twitter brainrotted ppl like myself https://x.com/lucianodeangeIo/status/1825270849014010283

It's not hard to be intellectually honest and negative. Negativity also performs better than optimism on social media. Much harder to be intellectually honest and optimistic with bias for action, willingness to fail, learn, ability to find the appropriate amount of signal in all feedback and then discard remaining noise, and most importantly, not quitting.

Farcaster has less price chatter because the user base is a higher % builder / creator than CT. It’s a high agency mindset.

@dwr.eth if the whole Farcaster thing doesn’t work out I think you could pivot into this vocation pretty easily.

Real talk time founders. I appreciate the call out @chinmay.eth, AND it’s always been my assumption when building that my code will be stolen. Nothing we put online is defensible, therefore our advantage has to lie outside of “the code”. How do you feel about this, reader?

Hi @percs, I want to address your concerns directly and offer my sincere apologies. 1st - We really liked the design of your website. We took inspiration from it while our site was still under construction. 2nd - We clearly instructed users not to use the website, and all paying users are aware of what's currently available on the platform. 3rd - The brand logos were placeholders used during development and were never meant to imply any false affiliations. We have removed them to avoid any further misunderstandings. We want to emphasize that we are not sponsored in any way with the branded affiliations. I respect you as a fellow Farcaster and a good builder, and I want to apologize again for the disappointment and any actions that may have caused it. If we confused other users with the website, particularly with the sponsorship banner, @cauliflower and I would like to apologize sincerely.

Social media can often provide a simulacrum of feeling informed by allowing us to consume an endless stream of chatter and observations. But while it is a useful tool for making connections, keeping up with headlines, and picking up clues for further inquiry, there is no substitute for lifelong study built on a foundation of reading books, long-form essays, and reports. I encourage everyone to set a goal for book reading in a given year. It does not need to that ambitious, but it helps to set a target. For a period of roughly a decade I read around 100 books per year. Due to life circumstances I’ve scaled this down to around 40. But even 10 or 20 would make a difference. Books are not just a means to obtain information but also have salutary neurological effects. They teach you how to remain focused and structure abstract information. The trick is that you should read what you find most interesting, and not what others necessarily tell you to read. The quote below is when I knew SBF would be a fraud:

I've been finding quality of posts and discourse on Farcaster consistently high recently. My impression is that it got spammy around 6 months ago, but since then has quietly improved a lotl