GM Farcaster ep171 Monday October 21, 2024

GM degens, hope you had an epic weekend! We’re starting the week by enabling public mode in the /degen channel. Now everyone can post in /degen, but as always, member posts will be featured in the feed, with a few select non-member posts also shown.

This is some groundhog day Monday @nounishprof

A lot has changed since I was last on here. Channels completely different People get boosted now But people still building and seems like the vibe is alive and well. Good things coming for Warpcast

Sometime during onchain summer ‘24 the FM button activated! Listen whenever you want :) higher.fm

FM!

Whoa so many new buttons, pay and twitter connections 👀 Team is cooking hard on ui, love it

Back to lurking around on WC again—seems like there’s a lot less spam now, or maybe I’ve just been away too long!

i have an important announcement to make about @buoy search

Saturday poll Please give yourself a few moments to think before answering https://frame.weponder.io/api/polls/24311

Ok, so I'm going to share this experience because I think it's important. I recently completed the KYC process for the Moxie retrogrant. I did this for the Burr Frens poker club. If this were up to me, I would not have completed this. I was not informed that I'd have to submit my passport and utility bill in order to receive this grant. Let's dive in 🫡 First off, it's through gatenox - idk much about them, but let's assume they are a reputable and secure site

"What got you here won't get you there" Technology is about brain; leadership is all heart When you reach senior leadership, you can’t rely solely on your brain. You might have the "correct" solution but if people aren’t willing to listen, it doesn’t matter. Sharing highlights from a talk I gave two years ago

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Recently, Bluesky gained over a million new users, bringing the total to over 12M, with DAU hitting an ATH of over 1.5M. This growth likely followed the surge after 𝕏 was banned in Brazil and two key changes on Twitter: allowing blocked users to view posts from public accounts and permitting third-party AI developers to use private user data. If users are unhappy with these changes, they would typically seek alternatives at the client level. However, since Twitter isn't an open, decentralized protocol, there are no alt-clients, prompting users to turn to perceived decentralized platforms. This shows that the narrative of decentralized platforms providing more control and autonomy still resonates, attracting those seeking greater freedom of speech and privacy protection. When might those leaving Twitter consider joining Farcaster? https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/18/24273435/bluesky-user-spike-x-tos-ai-changes-blocking

FM! ⚡️HIGHER SATURDAY⚡️ A fresh DJ mix 'Forget Fear' by @sorenwrenn with an intro and affirmations for the week are out now! Hope you enjoy: https://www.mixcloud.com/higherfm/hfm-1019/ https://www.mixcloud.com/higherfm/forget-fear-by-s%C3%B6ren/

we need to get more academics on Farcaster

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GM happy weekend everyone 💜💜 Loving this cat town moshicam border with a photo from my nature walk this morning And here’s our base builder hour with the founders of /cattown if you want to learn more https://www.youtube.com/live/UwVsE1y7Gec?si=FUophzmw7OCLNDRo

We'll be hosting an AMA w/ Henry Farrell in /books on Tuesday. Henry Farrell is a professor of international affairs and author of several books, including the award winning Of Privacy and Power. RSVP for a reminder when it starts: https://events.xyz/events/8d07e641

i'm building /icebreaker with @web3pm & team – the professional network where you meet exceptional people MEGA week! 🧊 Successfully imported ~8000 contacts to Icebreaker using the new LinkedIn zkTLS ingestion with 4 team members and 2 external users! (shown) 🧊 Launched mini app experience within open source Icebreaker frame 🧊 Ingested all farcaster twitter verifications so they are now returned in the icebreaker API 🧊 Launched email notifications for connection requests and endorsements: use DC if FC account is present, otherwise use email 🧊 Added direct cast notification upon successful Farcaster account linking

PSA: I'm enabling "public mode" (leaving my apartment)

welcome to /guiltypop, a place to indulge in our guilty pleasure of pop culture and celebrity gossip. current things that are living rent-free in my head: - OG lifestyle influencer Aspyn Ovard's TikTok tear - predictions on who will be People's Sexiest Man of the Year oh and RIP Liam Payne so sad

/memes is now in public mode. anyone can cast in the channel. paid members are eligible to receive weekly $5 USDC tips based on engagement https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x2e63da67

This is the first time I’ve used this app. I don’t like it. First it demands access to all my photos. Now the font is crazy tiny and I see no way to change that. Finally each time I edit it hides everything else while I’m editing.

Welcome @wildideaman! Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at GMU, blogger at overcomingbias.com, and one of the leading experts and thinkers behind prediction markets. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions. :)

Channel update: public mode is now live - Public mode allows non-members to cast in the channel - Member casts always appear in the channel feed; non-member casts will sometimes appear in the channel feed - You can always make someone a member of your channel to guarantee they appear in the main feed - Channel owners have the option to turn on / off public mode /farcaster and /warpcast are now in public mode

not enough interesting content YEAH RIGHT

please enjoy this knowledge graph about potatoes* i made *non-exhaustive

Introducing: 🍬 @candyroad - Sell Your Files in Frame - Sign in with Farcaster or your wallet - Create a frame with a cover, file, and price - Share on Farcaster for users to purchase in Frame - Purchases are direct crypto transfers on @base.base.eth, no additional fees! - Buyer will receive a DC with the frame where they can redeem the file whenever they want to! https://candyroad.cloud

Keep it weird - because weird means different and usually it’s off the beaten path. not so weird it’s outright creepy or dangerous or evil but also not goody two shoes either. The world of following what others think you should be and what you think is safe is boring Why join the navy when you can be a pirate

who here is interested in: 1. health tech (like @keccers.eth or neurode) 2. celebrity gossip / pop culture (guilty pleasure) 3. interior design / architectural digest 4. social sciences (a la rob henderson) and like i mean these in their actual sense, not the intersection of 1 - 5 and crypto

"Worse is better" is a good principle when thinking adding to the Farcaster protocol. Too often, the discussions veers to making the feature more generic to support hypothetical use cases. What often happens is: 1. The extra feature gets low usage 2. Every developer building a client now has a tax 3. Some developers don't pay the tax, and ignore the feature The feature isn't well supported, and no one uses it, and just creates a bunch of ongoing debt for everyone. The goal for every feature should be adoption - if no one can guarantee that the feature will be adopted after it is implemented, we probably shouldn't ship it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better