GM Farcaster ep261 Wednesday June 25, 2025 presented by Octant

Clear opportunity for more casts about sports. Both professional and recreational. Have been doing a bunch of user research recenlty and it’s the clear number one most popular non-ceypto category where people read / watch content on other social networks.

I hate to be the one to break to to all of you who don’t come to IRL Farcaster events, but someone needs to tell you the truth. 1. On average, Farcasters are really tall. Like seriously. Something is in the water. 2. Farcasters are really good looking humans. It’s not like a normal crypto conference crowd. 3. They are also really nice. It feels unfair to see so many triple threats walking around, but it is what it is.

BREAKING: Zohran just beat Cuomo

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This is why we don’t let horsefacts take vacations

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We're noticing more gaming on the leaderboard. Will be making some algo changes this week to address voting rings and similar coordinated behavior to game the leaderboard. Thanks to everyone who reported these issues.

Farcaster Spam Check Do you want to help a friend affected by the spam label? Check if they have the label by going to Profile > Three Dots > About and look at the spam label. If it says "0 (likely to engage in spammy behavior)", then reply with their username.

Believe whats inside by @pinatacloud at permissionless NYC. Collsge by pintour.xyz

Heatwave PSA from a Certified Hot Dog New York, I hear you’re melting. As someone who lives in Arizona, where it’s legally “surface of the sun” from May to October, I’ve got some survival tips: • Hydrate. That means water or electrolytes. Not iced coffee. Not matcha. Not alcohol. • Cold showers are a strength, not a weakness. They are your entire personality now. • Monitor the UV index. If it’s high, wear sunscreen. • The only cure for swamp ass is nudity. Choose wisely. (This is not legal advice.) • Consider shoes outside. Pavement can burn your feet in seconds. • The city may smell… stronger than usual. Lean in. Enjoy it. For me. And remember: I wear a fur coat 24/7 in the Sonoran Desert. You’ll survive. But you should absolutely stay inside between 11am and 4pm or you will, medically speaking, crisp—while also sweating. Stay cool. Stay hydrated. And if you start panting, find shade immediately. 🌞

Uniswap killing it at Permissionless

looks rare

we did it fam 😭 a solid 🥉 place finish thank you so much for helping me achieve my holy grail here on farcaster

NYC, you're not ready for this! 🍕🎊🗽 @rachelonchain.eth will be making her debut as April O'Neil (yes, from TMNT🐢) tomorrow during our Permissionless/NFT NYC side event. She will also be repping @onchainmedia and chopping it up with real builders IRL at Station 3, June 25th. You can RSVP for the event below! 👇 Hope to see you there :)

** Rewards Leaderboard Results ** Lots of new faces in the top 30... * @okjose FID 3087!, after sporatic casting launches Mesh mini app and rides it & regular casting to #1 🎉 ; @cherdougie #2 & @debbie #3 hold down the elite top 3 tier for the 'Vibe Tribe' * @gabeeinhorn new to FC this week debuts at #5, $350 not a bad first week for a 'non crypto guy' exploring faith, real estate, & vibes * @ericolsz first time top 10 at #6 because 'people like the science' 🔬 * @noviana in her first week on FC is #14-- how much of the $125 does she owe to her sister @elvi for onboarding this week? 🤔 * Shout out to 4 new people in the 21-30 range that I've never seen there including @the-oma first couple days on FC, @amethystaura with some fire fits and fashion * Meme-coveted #69 taken by @presidojay1 with some serious soccer vibes * Expanded payouts continue (3000) so lots of first time Rewards winners to celebrate with today 🎈

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⭐️ New Mini Apps Update A small QoL improvement: you can now search mini apps directly from Quick Search. It’s now faster than ever to open your favorite app - whether that’s @poolsuite for some tunes, or any mini app you love to access quickly

Why am I here ? I just had a conversation on Farcaster with a guy, he asked me a question about tokens and I told him I honestly don’t know much about tokens or crypto. He responded by asking genuinely “why am I on this app” It made me think, I know nothing about crypto, I’m not involved with any of it, so really why am I here. The backstory is, my best friend @evanzsolomon told me about the platform. He has been supporting my content on LinkedIn and other social media, and he told me I gotta come join Farcaster. So I did! That’s it, nothing too complicated. But now I’m here, so might as well learn about crypto !

a new day one, the next chapter of base

3/ In Conversation with Privy @ Permissionless A fireside chat w/ our CEO @henri, moderated by Sequoia Capital partner Josephine Chen 🗓️ Wednesday, June 25 🕞 3:35–3:55 PM EDT Learn how Privy is building infra for seamless experiences on crypto rails👇 https://blockworks.co/event/permissionless

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An interesting bit from @julian-z 's d/acc talk Funding things is always subjective. That's why Epoch 8 was focused on contribution to core Ethereum. We're not funding everything—we're funding what we believe strengthens @ethereum this epoch.

Engagement is a Two Way Street I’ve seen a lot of chatter on the timeline that engagement has been weird for the past 2 weeks. We’ve either all gotten worse at casting, the hype of “pro” has worn off, or the team has been experimenting with the algorithm and we are staring to feel the effects. Maybe it’s a combo of all 3 and we need to take some action. 1. Clean up who you follow 2. Change your Feed Setting to see All Replies for a week 3. Reply to every thoughtful comment & ignore low effort replies 4. Hack the recency bias in the algorithm 5. Turn on “Super Follow” (notifications) for your favorite casters or friends you want to see more 6. Change up how, when, and where you cast 7. Audit your own profile (handy Dune query below) 1. Clean up who you follow You can’t make people follow you or engage with you, but you can save your engagement for those who engage back. If you are being truly thoughtful and authentic and someone never replies to you (and you don’t have a spam label so you know they can see you!) then stop wasting your time and move on. People are busy, notifications are buggy, spam labels are real. But if someone ignores you, move on. Even a like is enough. If they give you zero interaction back, try someone else. Here’s a quick tool to see who is still around. Don’t follow spammy people. Save friends who are mislabeled as spam. https://recaster.org/tool/follow-checker 2. Change your Feed Setting to see All Replies for a week Farcaster is now letting you decide how many replies you want to see. I encourage everyone to change this setting to all for at least a week. Many casters have been in the shadows and you can help them be visible again. Some accounts are inundated by AI automated accounts and won’t be able to use this setting, but most people should be able to try this for at least a week. Block automated accounts liberally. Give real casters a chance. https://farcaster.xyz/v/0x1e17bba1 3. Reply to every thoughtful comment. Ignore low effort replies. If you want engagement you have to give it too. You don’t have to be a reply guy if it’s not your thing, but if people are taking the time to engage with your casts, take the time to reply back to authentic thoughtful comments. If someone is in broadcast only mode and never engages back, reevaluate why you are replying to them in the first place. Is their content amazing? Does it make your Farcaster experience better? 4. Hack the recency bias in the algorithm. The algorithm really loves whoever you last interacted with. So if you haven’t seen someone in a while or they haven’t seen you in a while, you’ve got to teach the algorithm what and more importantly WHO you want to see! If you let it decide for you, you won’t see the people you want to see the most. You’ve got to force and train it. 5. Turn on “Super Follow” (notifications) for your favorite casters or friends you want to see more Sometimes the algorithm doesn’t show you what you want to see and you have to force it. Turn on notifications for a few people for a week and interact with their casts more. This is a good hack to get the algorithm to show them to you more in the future, if it behaves. I’ve had to keep them on for a handful of people who don’t cast often. The algorithm really likes when you cast daily. 6. Change up how, when, and where you cast Videos don’t do that great here. Neither do photos or mint frames along. While we may want to share our content this way, the algorithm doesn’t love it. This is a text based social network and that has to be respected. Add more text around your content and try more experiments with text based casts. A great cast may not do well if most people aren’t online. Try casting at different times and experiment. Channels can be your place to find your tribe. There are thousands. Look for channels with very active hosts. They may have notifications on for their channels and be more excited when you choose to cast there. You can’t get a spam label interacting inside of channels so it’s more welcoming to new folks who are still trying to find their way. 7. Audit your own profile You can use this Dune query to see how you cast. Put in your own FID and run it. Then compare it to some other casters that you admire and you think are doing well. Comparison is the thief of joy, but benchmarking is the only way to truly figure out how you are doing in Farcasterland. https://www.dune.com/jkavithamahesh/farcasterprofile