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g m farcaster it is wednesday august 21st and you are here with adriana nannish prah for 29 minutes of farcaster news to start your day g m adriana how are you this morning
g m happy wednesday
happy wednesday i'm good you had a fun day yesterday so let's start there you were in the city meeting with yb about writing hackathon so what do you guys what do you guys get
up to that's right so we the writing hackathon which we couldn't believe was in june which what seems like a
decade ago yes it seems like so long ago and also yesterday at the same time
there were so yeah so many good submissions and yb and i have been talking we've really been wanting to come together to try to put a put a wrap a wrap a bow around submissions and do something with it so we we got together shout out privy who offered some office space max was in town by the way one of the side effects or like side benefits of being on active on forecastr and making friends is you get to like hop into people's offices when you don't have any so i mean that
done that a couple of times yes it's nice
yeah that's great
yeah
i popped into merkel in venice last year i popped into was it ovarian so be nice make friends and you can ask for favors so privy office is beautiful very bright and modern and everyone is super cool there yeah so yb and i got together and it's amazing because we've been dming each other all summer talking about we've been reading submissions and coming up with ideas you get face to face for 3 hours and we got so much done
we got everything done yeah that's awesome that's fantastic so i'm really excited to see the next iteration here very exciting
well and if you looked at my feed yeah you might there there's a there's a hint about what we might be doing so we'll we'll drop something in the next i don't know i'm not promising a timeline but sometime
sometime soon awesome i'm excited to read everything in that format so putting it all together in one mint is gonna be pretty amazing oh look at your schedule
well that's what we're doing
it's gonna be amazing i'm excited we're gonna
drop a book we're gonna drop a book we're gonna drop a book so stay tuned it'll be
it'll be amazing you guys will see it moving on to this from dan psa for developers tomorrow we're moving over to a new siwf that's sign in with broadcaster urls and simpler qr codes starting tomorrow 90% of warpedcast users should already be on a compatible version i e latest app store version but there will be some stragglers if you have anyone complain about sign in with farcaster not working just have them update their mobile app in the app store and it should work again for most people reading this cast you don't have to do anything but maybe just double check and make sure everything is up to date for you and this also related please upgrade hubbell to 1.14.4
which implements storage changes defined in github will minimize version on monday at the latest so all hubs will be ready for august 28th when storage units were originally scheduled to expire if you are manually calculating storage you'll need to hold on forgot to pull this up you'll need to update your logic you may find the new helper functions implemented in the hubs nodes package and that was from sanjay and then this from the storage extension is going out please update your hubs before monday to avoid any disruption so this is related to all of our storage was anyone who received free storage last year was about to expire and you would have to renew and pay for that storage and they just extended the complimentary storage for a little bit longer for those who already have it extended the expiration dates and then this all relates to that so make sure you get those things updated
yeah so that was exciting
yeah and that was kind of a message for hub operators so maybe we take it a minute to remind you there are no rewards for operating hubs not today still not not tomorrow
probably never no don't say probably
tells me probably
never yeah just a just your friendly friendly regular semi regular reminder this from dan you should add this feature it can't be that compliment complicated this is unfocused new features create tech debt and make the team move slower they also don't solve the most important problem unfocused startups fail staying focused is hard here's pg on focus pg being paul graham and i did like this so i'm just gonna give this a read there's a thousand things you could be doing and only one of them is the most important you do the most important thing it's like optimizing software there is something that is currently the bottleneck to making the software faster you work on that and that's a lot of what we do at yc we figure it out we sit down with people and look at all the things they could be doing and ask them which one is the most important they know the answer in their head they just don't ask themselves this question and then i'm like okay so why aren't you doing that and they're like oh gosh i don't know i guess i could do that so there you go obviously if the new feature is trying to solve the most important problem then worth trying so when you see dan casting about here's our priorities for this week it's all going back to what they're trying to do which is user retention essentially is what it comes down to and then all the things that lead to that like quality casts and spam filters and anything like that but bottom line is growing the dau any thoughts on that i tend to be a get get distracted by side quest kind of person so i needed that little for my for myself that's why i read that
note to self
note to self
note to self
yeah exactly
i mean that's bottlenecks are are the devils and and there's any optimization you're trying to make not at a bottleneck bottleneck is useless it just it it doesn't matter and for startups looking for product market fit it really is about focus
it doesn't that advice doesn't necessarily work for all scenarios at all times true i've a lot of that advice i used to follow in my workplace i've i wrote a blog piece once about feeling overwhelmed in life at some point and trying to apply that type of thinking to life and i couldn't because it was my my stress was coming from having these kids and you can't just like focus on your kids until they're out of your house because it takes like 18 some years so it doesn't really work as good all the time but yes if you're on a startup trying to find product market fit focus focus focus and get used to saying no and
like yeah distractions no no is a full sentence but i have a hard time with it yeah
i was laughing i was laughing and i wanted to send that to horse facts because we were trying to get horse facts on our show
and then and
then it got busy and i was like oh i think we're a distraction horse facts so maybe don't come
like if we're distracting you from something that actually keeps the network running please please don't come but but if we're not please come so there you go this from greg
well he's not making bread he's doing other things added a tool to recovery.fcstr.xyz
that makes it to tran makes it to transfer your farcaster fid to a fresh wallet may makes it easier the app also lets you update your on chain recovery address to a wallet of your choice instead of warpcast's default address open to feedback so you see deodad i think you've asked for this before so this is pretty cool definitely something that we need and i'm sure in the future it will be even more important as people cycle through wallets or you lose something or what have you or something is compromised you do need an easy way to be able to get back to your account so very cool thanks greg this from the farcon asia team so there's a farcon asia that is upcoming in about a month from now september 16th 17th the arts house singapore and there's registration is open farcon asia is the 1st major farcaster event in asia bringing diverse cultural elements offering an opportunity for regional builders and creators to connect irl this is awesome to see because we had a lot of discussion going on about far con right after far con and then it kinda went away so like in my thought at that time when everyone was sort of jockeying for position if you will to you know have their the to have the next far con in their area i was like i think we're gonna need multiple i think we're just gonna need multiple and i think this is the first step in that direction of decentralized farcons we're never gonna see another farcon with 70 people in it it's just not gonna happen it might happen but it will be one of many is my guess so yeah so and i i love the team they're doing an amazing job they're also the team behind jam they've asked i really wish i could go it's not something i can do wish i could but i know there's a lot of activity happening around token 2049 as well over in singapore and then there's also the network school that's launching which is a whole other thing we haven't even talked about yet but
yeah a network state whole thing the network state conference preceding that
right preceding that yeah i believe ted maybe going to network school so i would love to see her sort of reporting from there and telling us you know keeping us looped in but yeah interesting lots of activity happening in and around singapore and asia in the next month or so so i'm really looking forward to seeing all the things oh carlos is going hey carlos that's gonna be cool i'm excited to see all the things you're doing there that'll be fun alright moving on i know i wish i could go to all these things i just can't go to everything i go to as much as i can but yeah well if it's going
let us know and come in the show and tell
us what it is we want please
we need to do a quarter
i forgot to pull a cast for this but the 1st friday of september and hopefully ongoing there's gonna be a lot of farcaster meetups all around the world and we're gonna do a url one right here so i'll be hosting hopefully having people call in and stream in from all the different locations similar to what we do with bitcoin pizza day and it's gonna be a lot of fun so i'm looking forward to that
that's awesome and i'm sorry i'm unavailable for the 1st forecast friday
i know it's very sad but you know it's okay it's okay there'll be others this from peachy suddenly being followed by a bunch of accounts with these brown pfps or weird qr codes they are all bots mute and report why do they sound kinda human it's because they copy copy other people's replies and send them to you this one messed up and copied me and replied to me with my own words they are also adding n and l to their text many times before a tip because they have no tip allowances so very interesting i have not run into this yet have you run into this one
the the brown circle pfps no bots yes
yes i've had the bots
using the llms and the ones that are copying my i mean i've seen my replies being copied not in the past like few weeks but earlier different version of it
yeah i haven't seen it lately but i have seen it and it is disturbing especially when you recognize even if it's not your own reply but you recognize your reply and you're like wait a minute because i've i've saw people doing that with yours and i'm like wait a minute this is adrienne like what's
going on you reply back sometimes you get caught yeah and you have a conversation with a bot and it's makes you
feel not good yeah makes you feel a little dumb yeah makes you feel a little dumb this from this from i'm not gonna be able to say it sayumay sayumay i'm gonna mess that one up asked fbi intern who i should be friends with on warpcast and he sent me this 2 by 2 matrix saying what type of view who did he miss i noticed once again adrianne we are not on here i'm okay with that though i'm okay with that completely
this is pretty funny though i really like that nonlinear is in the flamboyant and adventurous quadrant which i thought was pretty funny along with the poly market intern i think this is where our our meme our memes live and then yes to crypto we see you discreet and adventurous we see you down there but this is pretty funny i don't know how accurate it is but it was amazing for sure and it's also your background today so there you go
yes everybody loves a 2 by 2 grid
with we love a 2 by 2 grid
we do i don't even know con like conservative adventurous flamboyant discreet i don't even know if those are the best like it didn't immediately jump out to me as something although they did beat dan so good job
well done
yeah so so it worked but
i think it was just
not with these not with these ai replies that's how you bait dan memes always memes
yeah call him flamboyant and conservative and he'll have words
it'll have words he has words to say about that that's funny this from bias this is kinda fun and i saw a few different variations of this nobody will remember your fid your follower count how many channels you followed what your pfp was when you started people will remember if you got an okay banger from dwr.eath if you did did time in a moxie correctional facility if you got your wallet drained related this was ted's take nobody will remember your salary your fancy title how busy you were how many hours you worked people will remember that one time the dracula algorithm was broken for a week so the feed was exclusively cringe videos of you on repeat and people will hate you for it which i found very very funny
larry do you remember when this happened yes so dracula early on
as soon as
it launched wasn't it yeah so there wasn't a ton of content and when you would go the feed was just ted it was like video of ted after ted after ted and guess what who doesn't love ted apparently people have not met her apparently people have been first time on dragula and it's there's a lot of lessons in there in terms of what you're putting out on the feed how people make judgments about you because i don't know ted is universally loved
how can you not love ted how can you not love ted but i guess if that's all you're seeing in your feed it much i get it i get it especially it's more of her it was more her tiktok persona than her her war cast persona which is pretty funny
i'm pulling things up live real time so it's distracting me a little bit this from i speak nerd hope to see you again on thursday for on game summer gonna be great time folks thanks to tabletop for hosting and snickerdoodle for cohosting shared our invite snickerdoodle lets you earn crypto with your audience so this is the san diego on game summer august 2024 happening tomorrow so if you are in the san diego area and you like to play board games you're gonna wanna go to this because it's awesome it's gonna be great this from naomi we kinda mentioned i kinda mentioned this monday when we were talking about sort of new casters who are making an impact on the timeline and i have been loving her content so this is naomi efrichuk she is a like world class competitive jumper in track and field so she's been filming her work her her workouts and sharing their workouts so filming these workouts every morning is now becoming my fave part of the day i love planning the exercises answering any fitness questions and passing on knowledge i've learned over 10 years i actually don't know what made me start making them but thanks taking part thanks for taking part and for encouraging me it would be cool to do something in person one day and if you have not checked out her feed you can find it in the fitness channel but also just on her timeline she's been posting like her workouts talking about what she's doing giving like a workout that you can do along with her so very cool the other day she had let me see if i can find it she was showing her jumping workout at track and it was really cool and then also this which was really neat she minted i think it was i don't know if it was one of her workouts or something and it minted 1.7 k mints in 4 hours so that was pretty amazing so it's really cool to see her digging in and becoming part of the amazing community we have here here here's the train with me which was really cool i'm just watching her do jumps it was neat so i love seeing this this is so fun and we need more folks who are bringing that content over here as dan has been asking for so there you go
interesting and unique content what's interesting about her and martaza's content and i maybe there's a few other examples is it's not crypto twitter it's not crypto content they're people who are kind of open to crypto and and leveraging unique aspects about farcaster and and and minting but they're bringing their own niche content and get like i'm not a jumper i'm not in track and field but i really like our content
and it's one
of the biggest global news reporter either but i like yeah seeing it so maybe call to action to people who are here and you don't always have to kind of join a conversation just cast about your like the your unique interests what do you know that other people don't know and you should cast it
yeah cast it just cast it i agree and even like i've also enjoyed people sharing what they're reading right now and what they're watching you know like all those things especially when they get a little bit into it and share a bit more about what they're thinking about it like there's a lot of things that could be casted that are unique but this has been super fun to watch definitely go follow her naomi is afro chicks afro chick on war cast and it's amazing maybe i
thought this comment by a friend naomi said maybe the naomi dao is not an unrealistic idea anymore although i am nowhere near athletic and you know there's all these at least maybe just start with a naomi channel you know there's all these there you go you've there's a steve channel a chris channel lots of like dude name channels
because we might need a naomi channel there you go
yeah might be time
it might be time this from pugson
some personal news i've accepted the position of head of marketing for farcaster by sufficiently decentralized vote from all the people rewarded for running hubs this is the first official marketing campaign when you post your ex hugh ryan hitler join the farcaster channel today i don't know about this particular marketing campaign it might be just a bit much
no it's not it's not enough pugs in whatever you're doing just 10 times more
so very funny very funny and then i did just a reminder this is a joke there are no rewards for running hubs i feel like we have to say that every time we even do and forecast
is not hiring marketing people merkel is not hiring for marketing people
these are these are inside jokes it's just a joke he's not the actual head of marketing although it would be really funny if all of a sudden he gets like a bunch of dms about it would be kind of hilarious but
hey you wanna do a partnership yeah
hey are we just let's send him a we should we should dcm hey we hear you're the head of marketing now we have some ideas let's go hit him up
media partnership let's go
little media partnership with the head of marketing from forecaster introducing the this is from base introducing the base builder resource kit an all in one launch pad for building on base everything you need to start building and growing your project in one place just build it so base.org/getstarted
amazing trying to make it as easy as possible if you are building on base so fantastic this from linda which poor linda linda i'm just feeling your pain through this whole thing view of moxie farming impact on my account majority of the spike was bounty caster questions drop off after starting to respond from the bounty caster account to make it sustainable for me ability to turn off moxie rewards from me for some casts would allow me to respond to questions from my personal account again okay so just to explain what was going on there since linda linda was one of the folks i believe they launched a fan token for who didn't necessarily launch it herself and then a lot of people started farming her replies for moxie so it got too overwhelming and they were farming in a way that she felt the need to respond because they're asking questions about bountycaster her business so it's hard to discern is this real or is this just engagement farming so she started to respond from bountycaster from that account because that does not have as much of an incentive for moxie farmers so that's what's happening there and then she did have this sort of interaction with beta shop so herd let me think it over i respect you and your feedback not sure how the farmers would know even if we could make it possible to opt out of a particular cast earning rewards which is interesting good point i guess you'd have to just make it explicitly clear you know you're not getting any rewards for this and then this is and linda's response was in my opinion just being heard as a user even if the feedback doesn't get implemented doesn't make sense for product business not enough resources etcetera goes a long way appreciate founder responses like this from betashop so i i think that's a lot about first of all the fact that you'd get a response because in the overall world most of the time you're not getting a response or you're sitting on hold for 2 hours and 47 minutes waiting for somebody to come on the line maybe not
have happened
it was a certain airline yeah that may or may not have happened so getting i i totally respect that getting being heard even if there's nothing that can be done and being heard in a way that's very responsive and public is useful but you know poor poor linda just please like give her some relief just leave her alone
poor linda because she really does want to engage 1 on 1 and respond i mean i don't know i think she's cloned herself because she i know she responds often on bounty caster questions like i'm assuming she's using buoy because every time i mention bounty caster she's like hey
she's on it how can i help you she's on it
i mean she's incredible but to yeah when when there's disingenuous farming yes interesting what happens when you bring money into the mix
yeah
and it's so
show me the incentive i'll show you the outcome as as they say so yeah i think that's definitely been an issue especially if you're genuinely trying to make sure you answer everybody so i feel bad that she's going through this but it's been i appreciate that she's sharing publicly what's happening backing it up with the data when people are questioning like hey it can't be that bad like no here you go it's like here's the data spike i'm not kidding i think that's super helpful and i appreciate the time she's taking on that so hopefully this is just a moment
are you getting moxie farmed are you getting engagement farmed yourself
no be well i don't have any of those like i don't have a fan token so i don't have that extra incentive i've seen it a little bit especially at the very beginning i was seeing like a lot more replies that don't look genuine but it's not too bad right now so yeah what gets what gets oops i think we were both
hitting it this time people could comment then and repeat it we need a show producer
we might need a producer we're both hitting it at the same time to show it so i'm showing it she's hiding it and vice versa it's hilarious yeah it gets rewarded gets repeated exactly so hopefully we can find some happy happy mediums here this was really cool from our friend jake base colors this is a soulbound a soulbound base color so mine was so pretty in purple and and blues and greens and i love it so if you go check out on base colors this is new it is soul bound to your wallet so it is coming up it is pulling the colors based on your wallet your wallet address so introducing soulbounds see your eth address like never before in color built in collaboration with apex 777 base colors.com/ soulbounds and it's just really neat and then you also get each of these individual colors that are in your soulbound one so they all drop to your wallet and then you can go back in and name them if you want which i have not done that yet so i do need to go in and name my colors i just find this amusing and enjoyable so for those who like design and color things this is kinda fun speaking of fun we got 2 more fun things i am not sure if you're showing the sound on this
do you know we haven't talked about this yet
we have not talked about this yet i am obsessed
with this much joy okay in my evening the other night
yeah things that i was this is from dan things i was surprised that things that would surprise most european things that would surprise most europeans without air conditioning in home salad bars this video is this tiktok is hilarious it is amazing and this woman is my new spirit animal except i do not like fruits and vegetables i would never have the salad bar but i just found this fascinating like even though that fact i kinda want one now just because i think this is really cool so she has this whole salad bar in her house she chops everything up for her kids like it's just crazy but the best thing about this there's 2 good things 1 she's wearing this pink silk robe through this whole thing and like rocking it and i just found that like very amusing and then if you go through the comments you will find renee campbell and i going back and forth and it is kind of hilarious and we like i was laughing just the conversation back and forth was just so funny i think it's on the one i shared but yes now everybody needs an in home salad bar for sure because it's just amazing
and lastly i have one last thing to share but before i do that because we're gonna go out with it because it is a video that i do want to make sure we hear the hear the the audio on anything else that i missed adrienne before we before we wrap today
i don't think you've missed anything alright it's i guess we covered it all chat's right pretty quiet right now
i know they're very quiet today i think because i forgot to cast this way ahead of time
we have a will shout out so but i will shout out welcome grace to the chat who's moved into a friendlier time zone and was able to wake up maybe and join us live and now grace gets to see people asking for future requests right in unlonely so one feature request we have grace if you're still here or brian
is the ability to pull comments in i don't know how easy that is to implement there's some gotta be some apis so
yeah i'm sure it's
we can have people pull in so we're like managing the 2 chats which is fun
but yeah yeah we love i'm lonely but yes we would love to be able to pull those comments right on our screen because they're fun your oh her fridge is her fridge is full of fruit and vegetables that's so nice
oh yeah
i could not live without ac
do a salad bar because there's no ac that's why otherwise the europeans would have salad bars
there you go you would have salad bars in your home like everybody in the us does no we don't just let's be clear this is not this is not the norm and lastly we're gonna share this as we go out because it's amazing this was from zara come along join the song whatever your decentralized borderless neutral censorship resistant open blockchain question is the answer is yes to crypto i can't believe she did a whole song about yes to crypto
celebrate on canceling i wanna know if yes to crypto first of all i'm so glad you have the ens are you getting royalties
i know you should be getting royalties with us it's amazing we gotta listen to a little bit of it
yes to crypto
so now he's got his own song so he's gonna his head's gonna get big i can feel it but it's pretty amazing so thank you so much everybody we will see you on friday and with that we're gonna say bye