GM Farcaster ep257 Wednesday June 11, 2025 presented by Octant

lol calm down and wait for pacific time

ok what the fuck is going on i was sleeping

attempting to start a numbered thread on farcaster, but this time you say pugson followed by the number. i’ll start. 1 pugson

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the copy pasta bots got to pugson so we updated our spam filter to suppress notifications that are on the Farcaster spam list so pugson will only get notifications if non-spam accounts say pugson and you’ll only get notifications when legit accounts mention any of your keywords

"Diet Windows95" This piece was super fun to make; I'm a huge fan of Microsoft aesthetic and wanted to honor it in this iteration. I made sure to research each element and the visual history of Window95 to create this as authentically as possible. Made on ASUS Zenbook S16. @stevedv.eth I appreciate you for dueling, I have a lot of respect for you, so this is very meaningful. I know you aren't a huge fan of soda or windows, but you did great & are a huge part of why this was so fun! @blankspace thank you for consistently bringing taste to the timeline and hosting this duel! how it was made: This was made fully using Adobe illustrator+photoshop. lmk if any of you would be interested in a workflow / behind the scenes video!

Honored to be presenting at The Uniswap House during Permissionless in a few weeks to talk about @clanker If you're in NYC, I'd love to see you there! https://x.com/Uniswap/status/1932577597533081842

Just got my @devcon Devconnect ticket for Nov 17–22 in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires has been one of my favorite places I've ever been, met so many wonderful crypto people there, and excited to go back https://devconnect.org/argentina/ticket/Linda/pink/jzjx4z

Just did mini word with the kiddo (yeah that first clue was a tad embarrassing) and he thinks you must be cheating @zoo 🤣 “best I’ve ever done on ny times one is 32 seconds like one time — no way zoo gets that every day!” This might be the thing that gets him on Farcaster finally — just to try and beat zoo! ***** I solved today's MiniWord in 2:50 (#65 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me?

Farcaster maintaining a steadfast commitment to free speech is vital to its continued growth. There's a real degree of civility here. The easy explanation for that is that the community is still small, so people are polite in the same way Iceland is civil or a countryclub is a civil. But I suspect there's another dimension to it: there's money on the line here, and acting rude is a bad way to get people to want to give you any. Hopefully that insulates this place against needing to crack down on the kind of bigotry or harmful posting you see on other platforms. But either way, let Substack be the model for /farcaster. Better to allow some vile posting and let the social marketplace sort it out than step into the quagmire of censorship according to shifting social norms.

Here's "Soda 95" for the duel vs the legend @lambchop. Lots of fun to make— thanks @blankspace for hosting!

a whole lot of you have become people i can’t imagine not seeing in my feed every day yet sometimes i’m reminded people do log out and not log back in, choosing to disappear into the abyss of the internet need to stop taking it for granted many things are more fragile than we care to admit

The reason I draw parallels to the hobby computer industry is because the same kind of niche user base exists: people who are willing to put up with super leaky abstractions, exposed wires and rough edges, to make a spreadsheet or draw a circle. Much like Apple's vision of the "bicycle for the mind" of personal computing, crypto needs its own story to tell. And money isn't compelling enough, that's just an application. If you were to distill the unique attributes of crypto, and then amplify that sole distillation into a single message, as what is the ultimate purpose of crypto? You would say that it gives you autonomy, freedom to move, to interact across borders, with a unified store of trust. If personal computers took off because they were the "bicycle for the mind", crypto will take off as the "passport for the mind"

#1 reason to use Farcaster

let me group mini apps into folders. pls. this is too chaotic. 😖

i really wish someone at buoy would stop this from happening automatically

huge W: congrats to @elvi on the first W-8/W-9 oneshot in the history of the leaderboard

What if: • Your toast always landed butter-side down. • You had to fight a goose before every meeting. • Every vending machine was out of snacks but took your money anyway. That’s not a dream, that’s Tuesday.

Welp Im a farcaster man now

What if: • Your money was vulnerable 24/7 • You had full risk • Every bank said “no” That’s not a dream. That’s brypto.

/fctrivia back tomorrow! Who’s in it to win it??? Questions are all pulled from /gmfarcaster and the timeline! PLUS be sure to check out @reserve — there will definitely be a question about @reserve!

most of our team who gets started on Farcaster today are marked as spam @garrettdrayna.base.eth is an amazing DS at @base.base.eth who is helping us solve issues like this

Just found out I’m marked as spam on Farcaster. This is such a frustrating UX to be considered a spammer until proven innocent!

** Rewards Leaderboard Results ** ++ Inaugural Top 3 $600 Tier ++ * Fittingly @keccers.eth is the first #1 & her first win; she has finished #11 or #12 more than we'd like to count. All she had to do was take a trip to Iceland to reach #1! * @elvi first week pays off big at #2, arriving as a content creator jumping in w/ both feet * What would the inaugural top 3 be without @bertwurst.eth ? 🐾 (Heads up, there will be less Bert this coming week, so a spot will open) * @pugson returns to top 5 & @matthewb gets closer to buying 'dan the dishwasher' iykyk--each collecting $350 along with the other top 10s * Down leaderboard s/o to @miguelgarest.eth at #19 for Pro NFT design...we didn't get him to top 10 but $125 isn't peanuts * @darrylyeo & @laurenmessner hold on to 29 & 30 for $125 * meme-coveted #69 is taken by @procoin ; & we welcome back @woj to a more competitive Leaderboard than his last time here at #71 - time to step it up 🤷‍♂️ * 3,000 now get Rewards, watch for new folks 🎈

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Here’s what creators need to start earning on other social platforms: TikTok: 10k followers + 100k views/30d + geo restrictions X: 5M impressions in 3 months, meaning tens of thousands of followers YouTube: 1k subs + 3k watch hours or 10M Shorts views with the new @baseapp.base.eth we want to enable creators to earn on their terms instantly

wowow @octant is going to be busy at Berlin Blockchain Week! https://blog.octant.build/octant-in-berlin-funding-the-commons-d-acc-onchain-summit-shefi-2/

the last time i was in berlin was for a european champs! heading back there to create video content at the d/acc discovery day lead by @vitalik.eth cohosted by @octant 🤝

if you have the @baseapp.base.eth beta you’ll see a 6th tab shipping this week any guesses on what it is?

Thanks to everyone who played today! We had a couple of issues, if you met one - please DM me! Next game same time next week & the prize is 100 $USDC ($100). Hosted by @nounishprof and sponsored by @reserve

hello everyone, I am dueling Steve (@stevedv.eth) in the very first Design Duel in the history of this app. this will be an honorable duel, with a 1 week deadline. may the best Window95 soda redesign win🥤

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