Transcript: GM Farcaster ep263 Monday July 7, 2025

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i hope we're gonna be okay g m everybody we are back i am on i'm at my cousin's house and i think the wi fi is pretty good but it's probably not as good as mine at home so we might have some issues so bear with us i can already tell i'm a little laggy so we're gonna do the best we can welcome back adrienne don't be laggy don't be laggy welcome back adrienne we're back holy

i did think about you though when i bought these the other day i got some liquid death and i did have a biscuit so mhmm liquid death and biscuit from a little throwback of your uogs back to east denver a while ago are we

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gm farcaster it is monday july 7 and you are here with nauter's prop and adrienne for twenty nine minutes farcaster news to start your day and we might go a little long we might go a little short because we who knows we everything could collapse at any minute and we might not have wi fi

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you know this but our streamyard lets you like choose like how much of a subtle i

they think we're ai alright this is bullshit this is bullshit human proof of human youtube

and that's funny alright so we have to make sure you know sometimes you check things off when you load up youtube so it's possible i checked off something by accident that said it's alter content but i'll i'll double check that

no we're live we're real people okay yeah z k youtube we need when when z k for for youtube there you go

but dorothy where are you when we need to alright let's dive in to the very important things that were happening on farcaster last week dan found birding and so therefore all of us did so okay

so dan's dan's birding somewhere

and this was from dwr why didn't anyone tell me that birding is like pokemon for people who enjoy the woods joy woods okay this is so funny but the funnier part was varun's reactions were hilarious and this is these can you can someone set a poly market for dan getting into woodworking next so funny and then this was also a favorite of mine he asked gpt chat gpt my cofounder is suddenly tweeting pictures of birds and clouds every few hours should i be concerned evaluating cofounder behavior the user is worried about their cofounder frequently tweeting pictures of birds and clouds and they're wondering if they should be concerned the behavior could be stress relief there you go personal interest or potential sign of mental health issues like a manic episode it's worth considering whether it's a temporary habit or a bigger shift in their behavior i think i should offer a brief reassuring response and encourage a conversation to get clarification around the changes that i lost it when i saw that that was so funny just so so funny and by the way here was the clouds part of this equation the clouds were also funny the birds were a little more enjoyable but dan also did talk about some clouds in particular cumulus congestus i was walking the other day so there you go but this was just absolutely hilarious and people followed suit here is will warren from matcha vertus' word portland maine with linda there you go and then he had a few of them actually there was a couple here i think yeah there's another one so we had some birds there everyone started sharing birds so there we go lots of birds

things got weird things get weird when people go on vacation and i did like this brad q with the new app update looks great on my phone probably looks amazing in liquid glass

that's really funny so we're getting rid of the arch adding a bird and we'll be the new bird app i don't know something to that

could work

yeah just this week so while i was on my vacay you know i hear we we like birds and clouds now so i thought i'd throw some up there i went sailing took some pictures and i also was down by the cape cod canal so there's some there's some birds

it's so funny and then you were gardening but also before that then there were then everyone quick t t w b casted quick founders and bird people are asleep post bunnies you posted some bunnies everyone started posting bunnies there's no way we are getting rid of the christian rap it's just not happening not after this week absolutely not it's not possible

it's just it's just animals yes if you're only listening to this please go watch it so that you can see the actual birds bunnies and clouds this is not like some kind of code we're not talking about nfts actual animals in the wild and nature and gardens so you did this big garden photo dump and then showed everything you made and it was lovely went through your whole process this was beautiful and all the different prep and everything so that was really cool so go check that out this link will be in the show notes but you can check out adrian's you know adrian's cooking it's lovely you know

what didn't you post

i noticed that

you're protesting the video content mhmm okay i've been posting video content i've been posting more of it i was posting my sailing i posted from there it was lovely i did a i did a a canal and canal and talk i was walking along the cape cod canal did a little canal and talk yep

this is the worst i've ever been on the leaderboard which i think is good since i was on vacation i sense that's a good thing yeah i think that's fine i'm like a 200 and something which i've never been i don't know that i've ever been over a 100 or not much over a 100 so that was interesting but lovely absolutely lovely look at that garden you're out there gardening and all kinds of cool things and then we had log a dog this is important important news log a dog season's back season two the internet's summer hot dog eating competition so you upload your selfies while you're eating a hot dog and then you can actually if you own any dollar sign hot dog you can upvote or downvote photos that people post and i was downvoting so many because guys it says log a dog you need to be eating a hot dog what part of this do you not understand like doesn't say post your dog like your pets it doesn't say post random photo of you doing anything else but eating a hot dog or random meme like no just hot dogs just hot dogs k rant over but i swear i just spent most time down voting things like down

can we make such a hot dog dog are you eating the dog then no

eating the hot dog it's very important rules to pay attention to but really fun fun this is from mike duddies our friend mike very fun go check it out it's a fun little summer summer thing all rules and regulations are clearly posted please abide exactly mike like how hard is it how hard is it

i know like just just read the rules speaking of rules 10 k word count perfect use case

for pro subscribers you have a 10 k word count so you can do long form content on farcaster adrian has long been an opponent of long form content on farcaster but would you agree that being able to post the whole entire declaration of independence on july 4 is a good use case of the 10 k content there you go

can't read that you can read that but you can read this

exactly also sometimes it triggers people because they think you're talking about somebody in particular but you're not which is i always find very amusing

because it starts with when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which you've connected them with another and it goes on to like yeah it's an indictment of king george in particular so it's it's kinda funny but i i personally have always had since college i've had a pocket constitution that i normally i do not have it with me on vacation which is unusual because i usually have it in all my bags and in there is also the declaration of independence so this is like something i often read go through think about i'm i'm a nerd in that way very much so so there you go so of course i'm gonna post this

who owns a pocket constitution by the way i've given them out to all my students when i used to teach my law class every semester i would buy them and hand them out to them so that they had them and i used to joke you know for when you're out at the bar and you start having a conversation about the first amendment and someone misquotes it you'll be ready with your pocket constitution and the funniest thing was when one of my students came up to me in the hallway one day went i know you were joking but i actually had it with me at the bar

that's awesome that is so awesome so there you go so if you're wanting to read the us declaration of independence go check the show notes after the show it will be there for you to give a read alright we have a few other things to get into but before we do that two things love it odd job love it

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so good so far so good so far so good alright i have to open these that's what it is so far so good but let's see let's see how we do because we do have a few things the team was very quiet last week so it was very quiet on farcaster people were like where is everybody everyone took a vacation and they were out birding and looking at bunnies and in their gardens and eating hot dogs so that's where everybody was last week but there was a few things going on one of the things which i didn't pull but i'll tell you about is that there is now a love island channel on farcaster thank you adrianne for your assistance in getting that done so if you're watching love island there's only one more week left jump in the channel share what you're share share your thoughts share your ranting share your memes about love island i watched it with my i have made my cousin watch it last night and she was like this is so dumb i'm like yeah i know she's like but now i kind of wanna know what's going on she's like oh and i didn't she saw a meme this morning on facebook or something she's like oh and now i understand that video like see

helping you with culture so yeah so there you go come in come into the love island channel

only got one week left don't worry don't worry people i still have

it's okay

i think that's okay that's okay once you once you go down the road i'll be happy for you though happy for you though so happy for you i love that for you that's what i was looking for this from v okay some farcaster news psa if your cast are showing up under show more replies the most common reason is that you are posting in a channel and the channel owner has restricted restricted who can reply you have two options one ask the channel owner to add you as a member two don't post in the channel and then your replies won't be hidden that was interesting so i wasn't thinking about that aspect of it so that is good to know second psa if you have reply filtering set too high the algorithm will only show you replies that you are likely to be interested in if you want to see a lot more replies consider changing it to medium that's what i use and that's the default setting when new users join today so i was having a hard time finding this setting because i think i needed to update my app and then it showed up so if for some reason you're like i don't know where to set this reply filter you might just need to update or go on the web it might be easier to find there so what are your are you setting your your user's license have you changed it at all

it was at high for me and then i had to go in and shipped it if high is the default that's

i think high is the default for anyone who was already on and anyone new coming in medium is now the default so you may wanna make some adjustments alright see what happens but it was helping to see a few more replies than normal so that was good this also from v control your experience on farcaster we've added three new filtering options for notifications replies and channels you can pick the lowest setting if you don't wanna miss a thing or the higher settings if you're overwhelmed with notifications and want us to filter out the most important updates for you try these out today settings notifications settings feed and settings channel manage who can cast so that gives you a lot of customization to your feed and that to me is like i think the most important thing is like make the feed what you want it to be and that way you don't have to whine about stuff you don't wanna see if you don't for some reason you're weird and you don't wanna see dog content you know feel free to mute burt but do so at your peril is what i would say personally i have notifications on your call but you know you do you and this also from v because literally dan is only posting birds and clouds for the past week so the only updates we have are from b weekly rewards are meant to support creators who spend their time and energy creating and engaging content on farcaster we've seen some accounts try to trick the algo by coordinating engagement and redirect rewards towards low effort or uninteresting content we're making changes to fix this one the algo will reward diverse weekly engagement if you get two likes from different people they'll give you more points than two likes from the same person two the algo may reduce or eliminate points from some accounts based on heuristics engaging with spammy accounts only with a particular account in time patterns that suggest coordination etcetera these changes will roll out on tuesday this was last tuesday for more details on how rewards work see the pages below so you can go to the notion if you wanna really dig in and learn more about how rewards are determined

and i don't know if that's affecting i don't think that's effect i think it's just me being less casting a lot less as to why my my number's down but it's just i think it's just because i'm casting a lot less this week why isn't this opening for me okay hold on

this one isn't opening i'm just trying to get this one open come on i'm just hoping we stay we stay on we stay on long enough here it is come back yeah it came on and then it disappeared to me again why is it going away come on you can do it i know you can so based on chain summer is starting so that's what this is and next wednesday they're going to be doing a big event in la they're going to be doing some streaming as well i did reach out to jesse on xmtp's chats on coinbase wallet beta and we're trying to either get him or somebody from the team to come on and talk about all the new updates and everything they're doing and on chain summer so hopefully we'll be able to do that i do need to get in there and play with this on chain summer billboard thing and add our customizations to it so i haven't had a chance to do that so this is from base onchain summer is heating up it belongs to everyone and the brand is yours to build with remix the visuals and make your own mark and they did give you a figma to play around with so we should do that and play around with it make a little gm farcaster one it would be so fun this from octant they just finished up their artist and designer competition this community never fails to amaze us a 173 designers showed up to make ethereum look as good as it works we're reviewing all the entries with the respective teams with so much love right now winners announced july 8 so tomorrow thank you for caring fam so that's awesome great to see that and hopefully we'll have some winners to share on wednesday and this also from octant which i love you octant but this would have been great three months ago

would have been phenomenal to have three months ago octant explained so this is an octant one zero one what is octant why choose octon and how does octon work so you can go check this out from the octon account in the octon channel so there you go if you're more like i know you guys have been talking about octon but we didn't know what the what it is now you do now you can go check that out so very cool

it do we have a one pager we kinda do we have a media kit

oh that's alright we do have one never mind we've got one oops is this where i wanna go next yeah i wanna go to this one next so this was so funny did you see the hot or not president's hot or not

so this

you gotta change it up one second okay never mind

i'd have to change it up but this is the app this is like the mini app and it's hotus or notus so it's hot or not and it's so funny like so abraham lincoln hot or not i'm going you know hot but it's so funny because in my head i'm also making comments like yeah four score and very hot things like that mhmm and i i i can't help myself i'm going we're moving along we're just gonna move along really quick here on this one okay

you know i get i get the vp i give i give him he's hot hence not bad not bad i give him a i give him a hot herbert hoover definitely not no no put us in the great depression some sometimes some people were saying like like okay ulysses s grant the last time i checked this was way up there does everyone understand he was not good he was not a good president great general great general not hot

yes i am i am very much doing that like they're not reading the instructions i know i'm not following the instructions i am very much like looking at this in a broader perspective the same as i look at any any you know type of type of man i'm like there's more to you than just the looks actually it's the hotness

what i'm saying so william henry harrison the man couldn't put a coat on i mean come on he was only president for like a second risk sierra mucci's that's funny it's really funny yeah like i can't i can't with this guy he couldn't put a coat on he's also nelson rockefeller he's also not out i mean he's not hot either but he did have a lot of money hannibal hamlin i didn't even know who that was but how funny are the comments it rubs a lotion on its skin

i do know that yeah i do know that

george clinton

somehow less attractive than the other george clinton the other george clinton i would give hot this one not not hot not hot okay we could do this all day but we're gonna move on also not hot for many reasons okay so that was really funny go check out the video too as well but go play the game it's kinda fun and this from kate cornish this is amazing and i'm gonna try to play this video actually in one second my farcaster family tonight we're gonna make someone's dream come true our concert in less than three hours and you can all watch it live after the last piece of off tense we'll finally get her bassoon she doesn't have any idea it's gonna be legendary so then she did post a video of her presenting the bassoon so just backstory for those who are like what yeah what there was a crowd fund to buy this orchestra bassoon player a new bassoon because is she is it even hers i don't think it's hers i think she's been borrowing one or something right or renting or something like that and they finally presented it to her last night and it was really just a beautiful moment and do you think i have it ready to go no of course i don't let me find it real quick and it was just lovely and honestly i was crying i was crying watching this and there was a shout out to farcaster and this you know the the bassoon player was crying i was crying everybody was crying it was really amazing so let me pull this up it's a little long so i'm gonna go towards like the end of this where kate starts talking hold on and let me bring this up hold on whoops nope one second please please wait one moment you know first day back we're gonna have issues we're just gonna have issues

i'm not in my studio i'm really just yeah i think it's this one yep and here we go

so she's getting it and hold on let me get this playing and make sure this is on and make sure this is up and hopefully you can hear this

sorry come on go

come on

this is making me crazy come on just play

i'm gonna go up like

alright the fax machine has

that one's going backwards okay

get to the end but she's talking about like you know farcaster and this group community coming together to buy the bassoon through the crowdfunding and it was just amazing so go check that out on kate's profile sorry that was not playing well again apologies but just amazing it was so amazing it never made me cry and that's what's special and just made this yeah amazing amazing amazing so thank you kate for doing that thank you for sharing it with us so we could be a part of it as well so and with that anything else adrian that i may have missed i know there was a ton of other things we narrowed it way down

but anything that i missed that was big that you wanted to talk about

it was good week have a had a nice time off good week we have two more shows this week so we have wednesday morning 08:30 and then we have thursday this week 11:30 and we have special guests coming on so you wanna tell tell the folks who's joining us on thursday

the story when you're about it very early crypto subreddits like even before like the you know crypto twitter took off there's a lot of like these crypto subreddits that are still very

so there's so many of these like super you

yeah ben's been and we're going to one of and they'll be one of the podcasts that we sponsor with dgen when they release their next one on pods so that'll be one of the ones that you'll be able to meet and get a reward

this is gonna be fun

oh so that'll be fun yeah i'm excited we got a fun week and we've got trivia i am still technically on vacation so this is gonna be all week i'm gonna be still less active i'm i'm still up yeah i'm still up north for the week so i'm gonna have like weird setups and things but still seeing some fam still gonna have weird backgrounds you can kinda see like there's a right

please do that i just don't know

thank you

and that's what we need to figure out that's one of the things like in my mind when i was going on vacation i'm like oh i'm gonna i'm gonna focus on how we're gonna grow and i'm gonna focus on this and i'm gonna focus on this and i'm gonna read 10 books and i'm gonna write stuff and then i did nothing but watch love island and you know eat good pizza and that was about it like in hot dogs and go sailing

so we're real we we swear we swear we're

the eternal optimism is tiring

it is

that's all

did you play the states game too oh the states game with somebody else who was the states game oh that was linda linda did the states game and the other one was the flag game the flag game was mika the state's game there was a couple things that were just like i'm like i know that's vermont don't you tell me that's not vermont there are some things that were wrong that is absolutely vermont yeah it's fun to see a whole bunch of people coding things that normally don't code so it's been really fun and i think that's you know in terms of like i don't know to me like that's a really big positive of ai in vibe coding and things like that so fun to see oh you know what we didn't talk about there's a whole bunch of stuff we didn't we didn't talk about we didn't talk about reply that's a new token and a new thing where you can basically make people reply to you you can pay them to reply not a bad way to get me right now since i'm way behind on my d m's and d c's

they are

especially when you're on vacation you have no idea what's going on i've gotten lots of you know i and i

so there's that for me for you just for you so there's that noyce is about to do a big airdrop of like 2% of the you know supply that they had locked up and noyce has been popping off with a lot of know different enhancements and things like that over the past week or so betterment toady did something with a capybara i don't know but they got a lot going on and i think he's bringing on i mean burr's joining them to be the you know chief fund officer so

look for more fun coming from them so that'll be that'll be fun so those were three things and then there was one more thing that i was thinking of and then it just it left my brain of like people building different things that were really fun and i can't remember what it is now but there's been a lot of those kind of things happening but it's still been a fairly quiet week yeah overall just because

people who i know it's gonna be real it's gonna get even tougher because yeah next week probably next week once once coinbase wallet coinbase wallet coinbase wallet does tba tba tba

so there were two more things base drop dropped a mint for an nft that gives you some new things if you play the base drop game base drop game is really fun so check that out remix

yes don't like the name don't like the name

but love the name

i love the name parkade i think it was really good branding it was very smart so that's what you know brad joked that like oh you're you're like that with everything i said i'm i'm really not like i'm totally fine with warpcast going back to farcaster i was totally fine with that if you're going back to a different a better name if you're making a better choice i'm not against that whatsoever or if it's a legal thing like sometimes the trademark's not available or something like that like then it makes sense to me but farcade is such a good name even though yeah okay it's the farcaster oh we want it to be beyond farcaster it doesn't matter far can be anything so farcade made a lot of sense to me remix could be it's too generic it's too generic i like some of the like the logo branding is cute the color is okay like some of it's okay but i just like our case better so made me a little sad but at first i thought farcade was gone and a lot of people did because you go into your mini app and if that's something you play every day you're like where did it go oh my god it's gone and some i think some people lost their streak

they thought it was gone

totally because she rebranded

yeah there was a lot of things rebranding this is funny by the way i don't know when that will happen but the most likely thing you'll see first is me using something like what was it oh ohara or doing a farcade game is the most likely scenario than me doing a full on vibe coded app because i just don't have those skills to make it really good like i would need i would need a co a co vibe coder to to get me through it

yeah

that's so funny about yeah ibm slowed down on making machines we kept the name it was smart like you don't get rid of the you don't get rid of a good name you just don't like dumbest thing i saw this is completely irrelevant from farcaster but dumbest thing and i said it at that moment was hbo changing to hbo max oh a dumber was getting rid of the hbo and guess what they're going back there

because they know they realize oh that was dumb we took this really solid brand and like tossed it aside for something so generic and it's just stupid so yeah don't do those things they're dumb but anyway in another life i was a trademark attorney so that was that's why this is like something that i do actually think about

there's so many stupid things in my a

i did i have i've i've bounced around it's funny though because a lot of these things are like significant lengths of time too it's just i'm old so you get a lot of different parts to your worlds so yeah yeah lots of things

perks of being old i also found the we do not care club which i have not shared on farcaster yet but you may have come across it in other social media and it is hilarious but it's really just for women in perimenopause menopause women and but it's funny it's speaking to me the things we do not care about it's pretty funny

the list is long but the woman is really funny she's really funny she's got the like readers on and she's got a highlighter and like a notebook

lose the whole entire crowd of 30 dudes yeah okay

i think where people get upset is when the thirst trap meta starts earning a lot of rewards i don't think people care that much about it in general i think they care when it's being rewarded that's what i've seen

yeah

by the way did you see bert's thirst trap no it was so

he set up his bowl was under like a trap like

it was really fun love you

we love you bert

so there's been some king and money and dollar sign morning gotcha again it's just so i don't know i think there's i think there's some here's how i would explain it i think some of it is not actually thirst traps but it's being seen that way and some of it really is and that i feel like is coming from people who are new to farcaster who are posting the way they post on other platforms like instagram instagram is very

like in a little bit of an a

yeah he's a shit caster

yeah and those aren't necessarily thirst traps

got weird i think yeah but i think it's a here's how i look at a lot of this stuff and like the dollar sign horny token that he launched and you know when i see this stuff like take it with a grain of salt and lightly because something else will replace it soon like you know do you want the whole network overrun by thirst traps no and especially ai stuff too like or you know like not real people blah blah blah but also you can mute if that's all somebody's posting you can block if it's really bothering you create your own algo this is what i'm trying to tell you you can you can just look at the following feed like so you're only seeing people you follow and you don't have to follow those people so yeah there are ways to

yeah it'll pass thanks this this too shall pass it always does and there'll be something else to be pissed off about tomorrow so don't worry don't you worry we've got the rage bay for you jessway

funny meme about it we'll feature you yes we like the funny memes or be like bert great i know you know funny thirst traps you know if you're a dog we appreciate it alright i think that's it i think i'm surprised we made it through without my whole thing completely dying but not bad not bad we made it and i did bring like i brought my actual microphone my good microphone my good camera my light i brought everything to try and you look make sure it was pretty good

not bad i just couldn't wear my hat because my hat kept fading into because i don't have my real grand screen but this was my hat we can kinda see it wicked smile

alright and with that everybody we're gonna call it there

and we'll be back wednesday 08:30am and then on thursday at 11:30am with ev mavericks or evm mavericks we're not quite sure which i think it's ev mavericks i don't know but we're very i'm very excited to talk with ben and and that crew and learn more so it'll be fun alright and that's it everybody go post your birds and your clouds and your bunnies let's continue the christian rap or you know a creative thirst trap but make it creative and with that everyone we will see you on wednesday until then bye bye