GM Farcaster ep247 and CastOut ep7 Tuesday May 20, 2025

one of my only requests to farcaster as more users join and reactive: building from zero on any platform is hard, and can feel extra hard when it seems there's already a strong in-group (as it seems here). if someone (re)joins and says it is hard to grow here or that engagement is tough, i encourage you find truth in it before getting defensive or snarky. the latter isn't going to keep anyone around, but the former might. i would love to see farcaster lean in and embrace new and reactivated users by: 1. replying to new users as much as you expect them to reply to you 2. sharing what's worked for you or others if you see someone share their struggles (and acknowledging it does take time and effort) 3. make someone feel heard, not unwelcome or inadequate if we want farcaster to grow, let’s be the reason someone sticks around and not the reason they leave. shout out to @keccers.eth, @matthewb, @bradq, @afrochicks, @garrett (+ many more!) who are really good at engaging with all users!!

@horsefacts.eth @llamafacts.eth they finally met IRL! 🫡

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... what did you miss this weekend? * no /gmfarcaster today, /castout show today & normal show tomorrow * @moe dropped a great mini app to view Starter Packs feeds in app * @v cast a primer on Rewards, most notably it scores your top 50 casts; he also did a banger AMA | https://warpcast.com/v/0x8e1c9ebb * Lots of FarCon Rome talk w/ 'rolling up to Farcon' memes, but also side convos about FarCon being a DAO or run by Merkle & still having a US version. TBD 🤷‍♂️ * @bracky was busy with NBA Playoffs & PGA Championship... @degen-chad became the first 100 Million $Bracky winner (~$2300 on small airdrop)! s/o @arob1000 at 58 million * This Week In Mini Apps featured @keccers.eth & @jc4p hosted by @horsefacts.eth | https://warpcast.com/linda/0x3255e221 * Under the radar but appreciated @jdotfinn energy to spur intentional $degen tipping again 🎩 | https://warpcast.com/jdotfinn/0x0c8664df * Lastly, @bertwurst.eth graduated Intermediate Puppy School 😁 🎉

Every Creator on @base.base.eth is invited to Global Pizza Party 2025! @thecreators is partnering with @pizzadao & @ownthedoge to invite all artists, musicians, and creators in the Based Creator Directory to the 🍕 BITCOIN PIZZA DAY CREATOR PARTY! 🍕 We're cooking up chaos for the most legendary food order in crypto history! Create a meme, music track, or piece of art celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day (May 22) 🏆 Winners get featured by @pizzadao 📅 Deadline: May 21 📍 Follow @thecreators, @pizzadao, & @ownthedoge. Drop entries in the comments below, tag 3 friends, and recast. PRIZES: 1. Pizza Box from Snax's Collection (https://opensea.io/snax?collectionSlugs=rare-pizzas-box) + $50 Pizza Faucet (https://pizzafaucet.xyz/) 2. Random Doge Pixel + $25 Pizza Faucet (https://pizzafaucet.xyz/) 3. Global Pizza Party T-Shirt + $25 Pizza Faucet (https://pizzafaucet.xyz/) 4. Pizza Sticks NFT + $25 Pizza Faucet (https://pizzafaucet.xyz/) 5. $25 Pizza Faucet (https://pizzafaucet.xyz/)

May 16th Dev Update Video! You've heard of the walk and talk, but have you seen the sit and speak? Here's our agenda: - Solana - Farcaster Rebrand - Verifications - Snapchain Incident If you have any questions, I'll respond in chat.

I did it!!! Graduated from my Intermediate class! My teacher said I’ve come a long way since we started and that everything’s really starting to click for me. They also told the Assistants I’m a pleasure to have in class. Next up: Tricks class! Time to learn how to show off a little before I’m old enough to move on to Advanced. Thanks for all the encouragement along the way!!!

✨ starter pack feeds ✨ new mini app to view feeds from any starter pack. here's a feed from the independent journalists starter pack by @ted https://starterpack-feeds.val.run/independent-journalists-glnse9 or check out the home page to see a list of curated starter packs. want a custom feed of a set of users? create a starter pack in warpcast and view it here. https://starterpack-feeds.val.run/

pulling up to farcon like this qc w your farcaster Rome fit

If you want to be a good airdrop candidate: - don't immediately sell the airdrop. - if you don't like it or it's not worth, simply don't claim it and trigger and negative consequence when you sell it. - instead wait and see the market reaction and if this $7 is worth claiming. - interact with the protocols, use their product. - If you like their product the cast about it. - if you REALLY like it, cast open feedback and help the team that gave you free tokens. All in all, this is an opt-in or opt-out system As a users, optimize your behavior to be properly incentivized. OR Simply don't claim and no negative consequences will occur. But please stop bitching to @linda about how unfair the negative consequences are if you're just using these airdrops and providing zero value to the project.

FTFY coming soon

pulling up to farcon like this qc w your farcaster Rome fit

pulling up to farcon like this (QC w your Farcaster Rome fit)

These were the first batch of ~10 airdrops to Farcaster users (~$110K so far). Early on as projects target potential new high quality users, they're factoring in how likely is this user to convert (not a retro airdrop) Sometimes projects choose to exclude users if there have been *multiple* prior airdrop sales in the past (not if you just sold 1). Put yourself in their shoes if a user immediately sold multiple prior airdrops, they're prob less likely to convert and you can give to another user that is higher likelihood That said, you won't be permabanned forever for selling multiple as this is building some data early on and there will be factors that can help outweigh (post high quality content, use mini apps, do onchain txns) Team has been slammed but we'll have more infra support on airdrops later. On list is def to show more token info (that's why I manually post info for now since not built in) As Farcaster grows and becomes more valuable to target, airdrop amounts will naturally be larger too

airdrops are from apps trying to get users. if someone is consistently not using apps and selling airdrops, i suspect devs will not be excited about sending them tokens, unless there is a compelling reason to be convinced that you won't do it this time.

ok, maybe i wasn't clear enough. i don't sell any of the airdrops i've received from farcaster — they're all just sitting on my warplet and not going anywhere. but i don't like having my miniapp library full of stuff i don't actually use, so once i claim an airdrop, i'll usually delete the app if it doesn't feel useful for me (why would i have a walletconnect miniapp, for example?). same goes for following accounts — i don't like following people or products i'm not genuinely interested in. that said, farcaster really encourages you to claim your airdrops — you even get a notification for it. so my question is: is it bad to complete the claim steps and then delete the apps or unfollow the accounts afterward?

me and the @urbe-eth crew are all in, no hesitation we’re thrilled to bring Farcon to our city, and grateful to everyone who voted for rome 🇮🇹 for the past 3 years, we’ve been bootstrapping the italian builders ecosystem from the ground up, and Farcon will only take that to the next level more soon 🫡

Farcon 2026 has officially been decided by the farcaster community and the results were shockingly close! See you all at FarCon Rome next year😏 Here’s to the /urbe-eth crew accepting this large responsibility @limone.eth @0xcaso @itsmide.eth 🇮🇹 And here’s to FarCon Tokyo 2027! @yuki 🇯🇵

Here's a quick primer on how Warpcast Creator Rewards work. Will be adding this into the Rewards mini-app and keeping it updated as the algorithm changes.

made a new quiz app for the @Celo launch: a personality quiz they made me take during a google internship a decade ago then they told me i got the wrong answer (blue) — find yours! https://color-test.kasra.codes

Excited to see new ecosystems coming into Farcaster Huge thanks to @pirosb3 @slokh @blockheim for building this Celo airdrop tool, @sophia and the wonderful @celo team, @ted on community work, the day 1 Celo mini app builders, and lots more!

Celo is now supported in mini apps and wallet! Starting today, Farcaster users can send, receive and swap any asset on the Celo blockchain. The Celo team will be offering an airdrop to a group of Farcaster users later today. You’ll get an in-app notification if you’re eligible. Check the casts below for a Celo builder starter pack and information for developers.

Would you pay for a "pro" storage unit that gave you: - longer casts (10k chars) - upto 4 images or embeds per cast - profile upgrades (link other socials, banner image etc) For creators, this would help level up their content and profiles. Assume it costs around $10/mo and revenue goes to weekly rewards.