GM Farcaster ep244 Monday May 12, 2025
Aired Date
May 13, 2025
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GM Farcaster
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ep244
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https://youtu.be/yAkKEwm8iRkCastOut: Lil Island starts today! At noon ET we'll officially launch on /gmfarcaster and we'll share the first challenge! Thank you to our sponsors: /lilnounsdao @octant @purple and our reward challenge sponsor /degen! Let's meet our tribes: Lils Lil Sock Gang Purple /dv Cast me Outside Good News Mayaa Lil Fun See the tribe members in the 🧵 ⤵️
29 Seconds of Farcaster ... what did you miss this weekend? * This should've been a 29 second walk & talk...quiet weekend but notable exceptions--like @matthew releasing Far Poker 📈 * /gmfarcaster released the @fredwilson.eth FarCon interview & @chaim.eth released Acid Test #3 FarCon NYC * Two great resources for improving your FC account-- @v cast a video of him reviewing 10 FC accounts that is full of valuable insight https://warpcast.com/v/0xca109506 & @jpfraneto.eth took @katekornish 7-part challenge for FC accounts to lose the spam label & grow and created a mini app https://warpcast.com/jpfraneto.eth/0x71aa969f * @ted offered some 'hard truths' that spurred lots of discussion & could stir more good convo if not forgotten https://warpcast.com/ted/0x348171cb * This Week In Mini Apps w/ @linda featured PaperView https://warpcast.com/linda/0xdbcc397e * @adrienne & @nounishprof going West Coast friendly 11:30 AM EST & /castout starts today!
HI Casters. I posted the talk that @dwr and I did at Farcon to avc.xyz this morning https://avc.xyz/farcon-fireside

AVC
I am a VC
https://avc.xyz

Farcon Fireside
The Farcaster community gets together every year in a community-produced event called Farcon. It took place the first few days of May this year in Brooklyn. Dan Romero, co-founder and CEO of Farcaster, asked me to do a fireside chat with him and while I'm trying to do less of this sort of things these days, that was an invitation I could not resist. Dan took me on a trip down career memory lane. The result is a powerful argument for protocols over platforms. See for yourself. It's just over t...
https://avc.xyz/farcon-fireside
He’s got to be cheating
I solved today's MiniWord in 0:10 (#1 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me?
lmfao the high school cell phone thing caught on… just stumbled upon it in a junk drawer. The power of QC is wild here
My cell phone through high school 😅
"Cassie, how old are you?" Me: this was my high school phone
yes, this was my high school phone
Cell phone senior year
“Adrienne, how old are you?” Me: this was my high school phone
“I just got a $0.25 from a dog” Is something you’ll only hear on farcaster
“Jeff, how old are you?” Me: this was my high school cell phone
A map of the cloud predicted the pope.
Before the conclave, Bocconi ran a “Network Conclave” sim. Graph theory only — no AI, no divine signals. They surfaced Robert Prevost as a top node. Days later: Pope Leo XIV. Eigenvector = status Betweenness = info flow Coalitions = emergent power The Vatican didn’t run this. The network did. Leadership emerges from structure, not hierarchy. Forget hierarchy. Observe the graph. Link: https://www.unibocconi.it/en/news/network-conclave (now you see why @balajis.eth was right)
henlooo 🐾 i’m guinness! 13.5 yrs young, raised by my momma @debbie. this is my first time on the internet (and onchain!). momma’s still teaching me how to interact with hoomans online... but i'm a quick learner! follow me! i’m hoping to learn some new tricks soon 💛
product-market fit
few weeks ago @katekornish wrote a 7 part series of writing about farcaster onboarding. incredible stuff. i saw it and thought: this could be a mini app so this is the mini app thoughts? feedback? she will share it “formally” on monday, so let’s consider that as the deadline https://farcasterchallenge.lat
For your walk and talks - put a title on top that lets people know roughly what it’s about. Keep and hold it for first 2-5 sec - Captions are non negotiable
first, every man made a blog then, every man made twitter threads next, every man made a podcast and now, every man will make a walk and talk video
Here's me reviewing some FC profiles and telling people how to improve their engagement https://www.loom.com/share/27a2185e60df4b939c91d935c5efd624?sid=8023925d-dda6-4d3d-8634-e7ffa7747263
What makes an account "inauthentic"? We're considering a new labelling system for inauthentic accounts. These accounts, often incorrectly called bots, will be hidden from like counts and other metrics in Warpcast. Inauthentic accounts give real people the ick because they're clearly trying to get value for their account at the expense of everyone else on the network.
🔔 💜 Say “gmonad” to clanker to deploy a monad testnet token. 💜 🔔 Spend your testnet MON to buy your favorites - connect to the miniapp by clicking your profile on the top right. Add the miniapp and we'll notify you when we add a sell button 👀 gmonad @clanker deploy CLANKCLANK
Here it is!! A very special "FarCon NYC" episode of @acidtest is OUT NOW 🔥 🔥 Featuring over 40 interviews with many of you on the ground in Brooklyn NY. p.s. everyone I spoke to is on the split!! Every mint puts ETH/USDC in your pocket if you're featured on the show. https://app.acidtest.xyz/songs/3
Product-market fit: ChatGPT, Coinbase, Farcaster
new on warpcast: mini app notifications grouping and disabling new notifs still go to the top of the priority stack, but take only 1 slot per app vs taking over your whole page also if an app feels like too much for you, you can disable the notifications straight from the settings page shout out to @alvesjtiago.eth @farcasteradmin.eth @phil and other devs who pushed mini apps notifs to the limit
Final reminder! Hubs are going away soon. If you're running hubs please dm @dynemyte
Who are the best Farcaster evangelists? Need help getting my friend Brice here He’d kill it in /golf
