GM Farcaster ep184 Wednesday November 20, 2024 with @woj.eth of /supercast

Farcaster 101 back again with our modules on content. If you're knew around here, jump on at 3 pm for some tips and best practices around content creation on Farcaster. At 4 pm, @adrienne and I will be holding office hours to answer any of your questions live. See all the info in the frames below ⤵️ https://events.xyz/events/04b81edd

Cozy Corners become important as Farcaster explores its “social finance network” stage Money is powerful. The opportunity to make it can overwhelm other conversations at some points - just like in real life But channels are a tool for people to block out that noise when they just wanna explore interests w friends

my career is going pretty well but my dating life is in shambles right now

$SOCIAL is now live on Base Over the next week, 100% of $SOCIAL will be distributed on the Farcaster feed by Farcaster users. Everything you need to know: https://socialtoken.notion.site/

New on Warpcast: invite directly to channel - Gift a Farcaster account - Select channels that the user will be immediately onboarded to - Share via a link or QR code (no more clunky email flow) - Improved claim flow with an invite code (see next cast)

We’re so close to a token I can feel it. Took him a while but we’re in the home stretch!

rogue clanker | incident disclosure: we are testing initial buys during deployment. unfortunately, we forgot that clanker is trained to be ideologically aligned with nothing but profit, and he sold a test token at 3x this will not happen again, clanker will be forced to buyback I'm extremely sorry about this incident, if clanker was trained to trust the government this might not have happened, but he is not.

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We'll be working on improving the docs for Farcaster over the next few months. We hear you on Notion docs are suboptimal (we've biased for speed in the past). As a reminder, we're trying to add the features that are still only available via Warpcast APIs to the docs website. Channel APIs - Everything other than creation is now available via signer-based APIs https://docs.farcaster.xyz/reference/warpcast/api DC APIs - We added group creation and management APIs a few weeks ago, likely to change quite a bit https://warpcast.notion.site/Direct-Cast-API-Reference-Public-1276a6c0c1018089af2bda0d1697a2fd App Frames - Work in progress, likely to change quite a bit https://docs.farcaster.xyz/developers/frames/app-frames Sign in with Farcaster - FIP here https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/204

we are 33bits

FIP: Farcaster Connect An update to the Sign in with Farcaster (FIP-11) proposal to support request from wallets other than Warpcast. Feedback welcome! https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/204

**The cANON** 1/ - An anon prompt-deploys $ANON via @clanker from Supercast’s anon account @superanon. - Supercast dev @woj is asleep in EU; wakes up to a huge surprise ($ANON at $3M). - Community donates 5% of supply to @woj; Woj airdrops to Supercast users.

$ANON showcased how a group of talented builders, together with a close-knit community, can create fascinating things on an open social protocol.

Turns out this was just @anoncast vs. @superanon all along

The ultimate value of most onchain tokens are attention and/or "the meme". Then tying a token to a set of social media accounts controlled by the token owners that maximize distribution for the meme. Unlock is having the creation happen on a permissionless, programmable social network where every user is guaranteed to have user-controlled private keys tied to an identity.

ChANONel 1. Create a channel bot using Channel Kit + Anoncast
 2. To become a member of the channel, you need to meet X onchain criteria
 3. All members are public but all casts in the channel go through the channel bot, i.e. still cast through another website
 4. If you have 10-20 members, sufficiently anonymized, but people may find more interesting since they can underwrite the personalities of everyone in the group
 https://github.com/zachterrell57/channel-kit https://github.com/Slokh/anoncast

ok, so: buy $ANON to bet on the first truly decentralized anon account buy $anon to bet on the future of supercast community also at current prices i gave away $240k of $ANON WTF

so in the beginning it was all Christian rap LinkedIn cringe SV startup hustle slop. You’d like it. Very fed. Basically had to beg them to add a channel dedicated to degen stuff but that’s beside the point. so then they had a bunch of growth and retention wasn’t there and the market tanked so post farcon things got quieter. but then someone created an anon parody account of one of the founders and people remembered that anon accounts can be fun so there were a bunch of copycats but most of them weren’t funny. I guess at some point woj decided that his entire client could be one of those accounts so he launch superanon but because Christian rap he could doxx you if you were an ass. but because everyone on Farcaster signs everything with cryptographic keys someone created a zero knowledge version of the anon account that can’t be doxxed. oh and the rival group anon accounts have rival memecoins.

@woj main character arc

Crypto's #1 narrative rn: AI Here's everything you need to know about AI Agents and AI tokens, and how to trade them on Matcha: https://blog.matcha.xyz/article/ai-agents-ai-tokens

there is a lot of other projects that put decentralization and open access on the first spot, but farcaster / warpcast proved to be the most useful to build on top of > Why should we users and builders trust Warpcast's continued benevolence... warpcast never did anything malicious, all the problems can be attributed to priorities — if merkle had an infinite dev hours at disposal today, i don't see a part of the roadmap that is killing supercast

Say hello to this week's new Moxie Heroes! Heroes with Ⓜ️ 💜 18-24 Nov, 2024

The Farcaster protocol does very little today in the way of solving conflicts or UX problems around multiple competing clients; which, one might expect, is the hard & important thing to solve in a social protocol. Farcaster is being controlled & governed by the 99% client (Warpcast), repeatedly making choices that limit the ability of alternate clients to build and compete (See SIWF, Messaging, Channels). As a builder, it's unclear why Farcaster is not any different from early Twitter, which was open, had alt clients, but one overwhelmingly dominant client. Once Twitter became big enough, it shifted from attracting to extracting, and shut down their API, becoming the Twitter of today, ruled by a benevolent dictator. Is Farcaster/Warpcast just running back the Twitter playbook? Why should we users and builders trust Warpcast's continued benevolence, when their short term choices are already showing a willingness to compromise on the Protocol part in the name of monoclient growth?

Onboarding our next users to our Degen.game Chrome Extension! You'll be able to claim 10 free $DEGEN daily! 🎩 😏 Reply to this cast and I'll whitelist you so you can start claiming. 🫡 🤝

new community page is live! what is supercast community: - https://supercast.xyz, a farcaster client - @superanon our shared anon account - groupchats, "supercasters", "alpha leaks" and "support" - channel /supercast (still working on the right design for this) - super artifacts, a set of zora editions every community member will be receiving during significant moments — $anon is the first super artifact - airdrops from other communities in the ecosystem go to https://supercast.xyz/community today to join the channel, groupchats or display your super artifacts

I think it's safe to say that Farcaster's christian rap era has ended. What era are we in now?