and gm everyone and i have a special guest cohost today because adrienne is doing she's doing college chores actually this time so she's off doing college chores with her junior and erica is pinch hitting we had rachel's wilkins set to go and she is heading to the christie's art and tech she had an opportunity to go to that in new york so all of a sudden was like okay you got a better offer i get it i totally get it and she's like don't say it like that i'm like yeah but you did but erica amazing thank you so much for like total last minute let me last night like hey baby are you around so thank
i appreciate you i love you
oh like i love you so much so erica is i think at this point our most often guest cohost and i think you're still the only one who's filled in for me i think
maybe maybe lynx i think lynx maybe did it once too but that's it but you've done it the most for sure
far caster we only let canadians fill in for me because i don't know
i would love that if you guys weren't so cold i would i would move there i love canada i love the people the weather not so much alright we're gonna get rolling i'm gonna throw up our intro and we'll be back in forty seconds
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g m farcaster it is wednesday july 16 and you are here with nounish prof and erica for twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day erica what are you sipping on there
like straight up black coffee
yep yep i was like i have an 08:30am start time tomorrow morning i better be able to just grab and go with the coffee
i love it i love it and i'm so glad you're here with us so we are going to start we are gonna talk about uno
promise you i've lined that up but first we're
gonna start we were talking a little bit before we started we're gonna talk a little bit about your competitor technically technically speaking but also you know yes friendly competitor yes the base event is happening today so the relaunch of coinbase wallet and tba which we don't we still don't know what it's called but i'm thinking the base app or i don't know i really don't know i really don't know i mean it might be too simple i might be underthinking it but i think people are excited they're excited to see what's what i think everyone's a little nervous too a little nervous little nervous little excited but this is funny bertwurst quote casting cackers quote casting dwr in six about excited for base event tomorrow so yeah we are we are excited and it is tonight 3pm pacific time 6pm eastern time which i then sent a message to the trivia team should we move the trivia because it's gonna be the same time as the base event and i'm like then this morning i went no it's not time zones are hard other direction totally not at the same time whatsoever
it went the wrong way i'm like no that's not correct like no no no yeah so we can do all the things today we can do all the things no problem
but i'm excited are you what are you anticipating anything do you have any alpha do you like anything no nothing
other than having been a beta tester because they slapped the qr code up at farcon and i i downloaded it i have no alpha actually like everything that i know is just stuff that we've seen them talk about online but i think in that sense like i've noticed that information is not spread across the network as much as it used to now that we're bigger so some of that public knowledge may be alpha to other people
yeah that's true yeah have you so you've been testing it i've been testing it as well what do you think like what are what's something that you like about it and then what's something that like you're not excited about
i think what i like about it is something that i saw other people talking about when they launched it into like the test flight which was the mini app feed i think having like a feed dedicated towards the fun interactivity of you know the the thing that right now makes farcaster really special and unique compared to other social platforms is a great highlight to put on the experience because it's really pushing forward the this is what's special about us kind of thing
yeah and i i like that i'll they also have the categories of the mini apps
are so you can and also we are sometimes number one in news
it's one
of the reason
but i do think it's i think that's really useful it it helps you you know kinda locate what your what your interests are so i do think that's super useful
yeah definitely need needed and anything you don't like or you're not so far that you've seen that you're like i don't know if i'd do that
i think for me like i have i'm a product designer like by heart even though i've been you know building for the last year and change now obviously i'm gonna have my own opinions on the user experience and be like oh like i would have done that differently and i literally did do it differently because
of the build
that's what
i was thinking
yeah yeah so there there's a couple of things about like just user experience things but without having actual data from your users those decisions right now are like
half very
yeah
database from other social platforms and then half a gut assumption so i could be right they could be right in the decision they made so yeah i agree very specific you know it's just more of a a collection of oh you took that set of decisions for the user experience we took these ones let's see what pans out
see how it plays out yeah for sure when is uno gonna be available to everybody by the way when's that happening
i know
we are finally able to say it will be end of summer that we're doing the app store launch yes
oh wow okay great great
i'm excited too i do like going into the different experiences the different clients and seeing the farcaster data and like seeing how it's you know the different choices like you're talking about and sometimes it it gives you a different perspective you might find people that you don't find otherwise i definitely saw that in the coinbase wallet one where because of the video feed i was definitely seeing different people i was seeing different cast that i hadn't seen before so sometimes it was serving and i gave this feedback to them the other day it was serving some older videos more than the newer stuff that i was seeing on farcaster but they're working on that algo and and making sure they're giving irrelevant stuff but it was interesting i like the video feed i think that's helpful to separate it kinda because that way if you're not if that's not your thing you can ignore that and you don't have to even look at it like if you're like i hate the tiktok tiktok type of feed you don't have to look at it which is great so i think that's helpful
that was what we originally had in our last year full alpha version of uno actually was we had a complete separation of of media like that we had the main feed for multimedia content and then we had a dedicated video feed but a year ago almost at this time there was like no video content on farcaster none and the video content that was on farcaster was all product demos so it was not an issue for us
we weren't doing that many clips like we weren't putting a lot directly on we were mostly linking out to our full episodes so and we've started doing more and more clips over time but yeah this time last year i don't think we were doing many at all yeah so we were too early yeah
so we cut it and run and switched to what we have now but yeah i do agree with them on that standpoint that is something else that i'll call out is i do think the future is moving towards feeds for different media types yep it's it just is more an effective way to consume content you don't have to like task switch as much and i think some of the burden of of using multimedia social media is from switching between video images short form content long form content and having to make that decision of do i wanna invest more time into this piece of content if you're just on a video feed or you're scrolling a substack or a paragraph feed right you know everything's going to be a short story an essay you know then it changes how you navigate and interact with that content
that's interesting yeah that's a great point and yeah having those i think those different feeds or customizable feeds is helpful like for and i think that's gonna we're gonna see more and more of that as it becomes easier to do i know that's not exactly easy to do so but i do think that's super helpful alright well we'll see how it all goes down and what people think i'm sure there'll be a lot of feedback today
oh yeah because you know this
is crypto twitter's first introduction to all this so yeah that'll be interesting
we do
have a bug reporting funnel in app oh that's great yeah yeah i think it's on your it's accessible through your profile page to send the bug reports
i don't even think i noticed that i didn't even notice that i just tagged i just tagged jesse
don't do that though
you really shouldn't
i was like tagged they tagged jesse and aneri and then like all these other people popped up and answered so i was like thank you yeah but it was really funny but don't do that i don't recommend that to everybody use the bug report i just didn't know it was there now that we know
and this speaking of jesse the plan this is from jesse the plan for base.farcaster.eth enable builders and creators to originate millions of high quality coins that have real on chain flywheels and value flows two make it simple for traders and investors to access them and win over the long term and the flywheel is just starting to spin and i think this is interesting because we've seen him lean into you know the zora coins mhmm and all of that and to me this you know the thing that i said when zora launched was i it doesn't make sense unless it's integrated into a feed yeah it just doesn't when you have to go somewhere else to do that to collect or whatever it's mhmm it's less likely it's less likely it's way more likely if it's integrated into coinbase wallet or another another or farcaster or something because it's just gonna make more sense so i'm expecting that that's coming today but i could be wrong but i mean that's
like being able to the only way that makes sense if you wanna mint it or collect it or whatever is if it's built right into the feed where you just do click one button and i can either turn this into turn this cast i just made into a zora coin or on and also collect it and with like just a little you know navigation i don't know if it'll be that simple yet but i know when we talked to jesse at farcon that is something that they were looking at as well so i think
similar to is it blue sky who on their their ui they put a little signifier of where what protocol that post was posted from if you look at coinbase wallet soon to be known as tba to be determined what tba stands for
they have the same ui on their casts they have a little farcaster arch next to every single cast so that's actually maybe what it is because they do have the ui to support saying this is from zora this is from rodeo this is from
right farcaster don't you know what i don't know that for sure that that's gonna happen but i if it's not happening today i know it's something they're working on so yeah
that's something we've also like raised on the idea of being that top of funnel you know yeah
yeah i mean it's the it's the only way that this number one up here enabled builders and creators to originate millions of high quality coins
yeah
that's the only way that makes sense to me is if it's integrated very easily with a couple clicks and then it makes a lot of sense so we'll see
even with the clinker even with like the coin do you remember coineroid that adrienne yeah that adrienne that yeah and yeah have the other yeah so i think like sim thinking like that but without having to go into a mini app mhmm where you just go click in there and it's in both places so we'll see we shall see we shall see
this again oh go oh i was just gonna confirm it was adrienne and then tiago who built with you at right tiago
yes yes thiago is who i couldn't remember i'm like if there was one more probably did most of the technical work and i don't remember what it is yeah
sorry thiago i apologize
erica's got you so there you go los angeles a new day one they're ready getting ready for the the big event i saw some practice practice things happening and previews and very exciting and here is the schedule doors are opening at 2pm pacific time which is 4pm eastern time
jesus i'm telling you
not 4pm 5pm 5pm eastern time
yeah i'm so bad it's so bad and then keynote and product update is happening at 3pm which is 6pm eastern here from coinbase ceo brian armstrong creator of base jesse pollock and the builders who are shaping comes next and that's exciting by the way because we know a lot of them we know
a lot of them
it's you know it's we our friends from bracky and farcade which is now remix which i already talked about that and all those folks so it's kind of it's gonna be really fun tyke from noise is gonna be there so it's like really yeah really interesting i don't know if t l d r is talking but i know that he's out in la for this so very exciting and then there's a panel state of the creator economy at 4pm pacific which is 7pm eastern and that has gary vee and cleo abram and people pleaser on it so that's different when they first did the preview that said gary vee was gonna be there i'm like okay
yeah i'm like i used to listen to gary vee's podcast when i was a baby designer and marketing person like oh
i mean yeah so this is that's interesting yeah yeah that's really it'll be interesting and i'm i'm curious you know how he's if he's gonna be doing anything on there or if he's just talking about the creator economy in general like if he's gonna be actually i don't even he doesn't even have a farcaster account from what i can see somebody's squatting on his name so i don't know it'll be interesting to see what he does and then there's some events that are live if you are in la so there you go that's gonna be fun but we know a lot of our other friends have been working on this as well oxford dylsteck you know all of all the friends and rish neynar is ready team just scaled onboarding volume for tba i e number of farcaster accounts created per minute set for tomorrow at g n so that's interesting very exciting
big we don't know we have no idea we'll see we'll see
and then this from dylsteck my first day at base when i saw the full walkthrough for tba i immediately thought oh my god these these are exactly all the lego blocks i'd put together if i could the fact that we now get to introduce this next chapter of base to the world leaves me feeling very grateful and fired up for tomorrow it really will be a new day one so that's some very bullish takes on our friend from our friend dylan very exciting and then this from sayangel been traveling so i'm late to announce but thank you pichi for the reminder there will be a live caster chat for tomorrow's tba stream tune in tomorrow add the mini app for notification when the chat goes live the mini app works in tba after you've created a signer via fc so there you go if you want to chat with friends while this is live this is a great way to do it so mhmm and then lastly from aneri who was here for the first on chain summer i was i was i was base launched and the internet started to feel different and i just love that there's
it's right here wait and so is this one they're like within reach they're within hand's reach they're like right there that's so perfect wow i'm like oh this is tap tap yeah
so i'm excited i'm excited about this i'm a little nervous i gotta be honest the because we just don't know what this means in terms of user base and who's you know if is it you know are we gonna see a lot of new folks are we not i don't know so yeah i'm i'm a little little little excited but concerned and things like that and i'm also you know i'm excited for all the new clients because i do think like i said they bring a different every single one of them brings a different flavor to it so we've got a whole bunch of new things that are should be launching this year as well not just uno but also the new degen client's supposed to launch i know cura's been cura's been working on things zapper else am i missing
zap zapper that one i've been meaning to test based
know that
subs and zapper have sponsored several nonprofit like web three events that me and a team here have run-in montreal
oh wow i had no idea so have you been trying this the zapper client
no i'm not on i'm not on the zapper beta at all and that's because it is entirely coin and nft focused yeah and i am probably like the most opposite of a trader that you can get that still works in crypto
it still works in crypto have you met have you met adrienne
thankfully they're very
she is very similar she
keeps calling herself a normie and i'm like girl you're no longer a normie like what's in your wallet
so i'm like and this is my
this is my test for her do you own any dick butt yes i do okay then you're no longer a normie
same but also i think i bought someone too
you kinda have to have some dick butt in your wallet or like can you even are you even here are you even alive
i know really by the way at farcon i ended up with a shirt too so which was really i don't know if you saw linda's comment a while back about that it was really funny about the number of times the number of times she says the words dick butt in a in a meeting yeah was like yeah alright moving on few more things to chat about we have some other fun things happening today including trivia at noon today we have 75,000 on the line it was worth $333 i'm not even sure it might be more at this point because degen keeps pumping so it's gonna be really fun this is movie trivia today erica by the way if you're available it's gonna be yes what time
is that again
noon eastern eastern
noon eastern cool things i'll try to make it try and make it if you can
and then also there is the better fold poker tournament with burberry and that is also today same time but you can play you can join up until 12:30pm eastern so you can join right after trivia and you're on the line is a whole bunch of better dollar sign better and shout out to tony hawk friend of the pod who's been rocking it's been he's just been killing it with better in betterment so yesterday and i forgot to pull this cast i think it was yesterday no it was monday sorry they did their first paragraph post as a collectible for the betterment spin so if you're not familiar betterment you collect an nft it was just on pods now it's paragraph as well you collect that and or that collect that post i should say in that case and then you get to spin a wheel for some collection of tokens sometimes it's better sometimes it's noise sometimes it's something else completely and yeah so it's really kind of a fun way to support creators and have a chance to win something so there you go yeah super fun and then better and then burr burr has joined as the chief fund officer we're trying to get her on for next week to talk a little more about that i love i love shibuy's like that only in crypto
like crypto can you have these times
i wanna be a chief fund officer this from bradq rewards leaderboard results sofia sofia garcia takes or it might be garcia i'm not sure if it's garcia or garcia takes the top spot and i think inserts herself into the vibe tribe new p number two is there an f seer working harder to create interesting content and then coconut rhymes with her second straight top three three new entries into the top 10 cianna and dawufi at number nine down leaderboard trompty trompty trompty trompty
there's no m there
there's no m in there what was i doing sorry about that did not mean to do that to you trompty down leaderboard two new names at with one ninety nine dot e at number 19 and crystal seasons at number 24 nice to see cranella return and take 30 during her thirty first b day week meme coveted 69 goes to farfits founder see access congrats there every week lots of people reaching new tiers and people fighting for the first rewards keep an eye out to celebrate with them so and we do see a few other of our usuals on there j c four p
kate cavil afrotix burr of course our friend bert who we love
always fun
it's great i think i
think it's such a healthy like environment like this is valuable information that you're giving a team like your critics are sometimes your best you know users your obvious critics yeah
yeah and we've seen that a lot over the years yes we've seen it less so recently in in a constructive way but i do think it's useful it's always useful and this is not you know this is the jeff goldberg approach to get leaderboard jeff we love you we love you jeff but it
i mean like it it but i mean
and i mean that in the way that they are providing honest and yeah valuable feedback while yes still learning on the earning on the leaderboard yeah
and not pulling their punches either i think a lot of people when giving feedback pull punches and then don't actually give the feedback that they wanted to
yeah yeah and i have you know i sometimes you know think things could be phrased a little differently or done a little differently but you know it's all good it's all good
and speaking of developer rewards they speaking of reward they two x the developer rewards twice as many eligible mini apps twice as much money so weekly developer rewards 5,000 to 10,000 now per week and 50 apps to a 100 apps so more people will be earning rewards and the rewards did go up similar to what they did with the weekly rewards so that is pretty cool to see and there you go there's also from v o dad down there great to see that i like to see that i wanna see the people getting rewarded who are building
and this from v are you running into video issues reply if you want to help beta test a new video player we'll add you to a group enable the new player for you and ask you for feedback if you see things are broken i don't know if it got done for me i'll have to look double check so any how are you guys handling video in uno by the way
we are building fully swift native so the way we're handling it is entirely different from merkle since they're building react native okay i can say from when we built a react native client back in the fall that video was something that we struggled a lot with and i'm not jealous of the team who has to pick apart all of that code and like find out why it's bugging
why what is the diff big difference do you think like what what makes it different from a that it makes it so much more difficult
video it puts a lot of stress on the system it's high quality content that's has like high throughput you know it's a frame 60 frames per second 30 frames per second it's just a lot for a system to handle probably and then when you add react native into the mix that adds multiple levels between experience like the code that the end user interacts with and the actual code that's running on the device because swift native uses the native apis and modules of the device's operating system and so they're like this but when you add react native you're suddenly writing in react but then that has to be compiled down into swift and then interact with the native modules so from that step where you're like compiling or translating let's say react into swift there can be some mismatches there that aren't perfect or the most optimized version of the code for swift itself but it might be more optimized for android or web and you just never know exactly how it's gonna compile down so uh-huh that's why it's so tough to debug
okay because that's been some of you know the the feedback we were just talking about or the criticism that was some of what j c four p was picking up on with some bugs and he's like why is this so difficult and he said he said honestly i'm asking why is this so difficult to to fix so that's kind of interesting to hear that perspective because i don't know i don't know any of that in terms of the technical side
debugging is difficult with those types of of things and it might be that you just need to build your custom library for it which yeah negates the helpfulness of react native so it's it's a tough spot to be in and i and i i don't wish to be there
i wonder how base is doing it because they seem to be doing it differently and i also noticed that you you hit upload but then it uploads after with theirs do you know what i mean like it doesn't if you're on there instead of any with with images or video and as opposed to with farcaster you're it's uploading and processing
mhmm
before you hit cast on that one you hit cast in in coin in the coinbase wallet and then it does the uploading and processing
it probably saves them a bunch of cdn bandwidth honestly to like only process if the user actually clicks upload we do optimistic processing so when you upload an image we're uploading it to our cdn right away even if you remove it because we want you to be able to cast and have it instantly show up with videos we'll have to do background processing because that's just it's it can take like a minute you know sometimes
yeah yeah depending on how long etcetera
alright moving on this from linda i'm creating a mini app vibecoder group chat on farcaster for folks to ask questions and help support each other dm me if you wanna get added specifically for vibecoding mini apps we'll remove if spammy so don't be spammy in that group chat but if you're building mini apps and you wanna you wanna be added in see linda i'm gonna be building a mini app with linda on friday at 2pm eastern so you know i'll decide whether to join that chat after we do that since i'm not officially a mini app five coder yet so we'll see how that goes my biggest challenge is figuring out which idea i want to tackle and i'm trying to pick like a simple one but also something fun and so we'll see i have too many ideas
i'm sure
i'm sorting through now yeah we'll see just a reminder that the that v is going back to dev calls and this includes this thursday so tomorrow at 10am pacific which would be 1pm eastern if i've done any of my math right today whatsoever so if you have been missing these calls because he took them away for a couple months and then realized that was a bad idea and now they're back go join in i'm sure that's gonna be helpful especially with so much going on so
yes yeah
yeah for sure for sure yeah this from grin yo fam if you're not vibing with neynar ai yet what are you doing this app is straight up next level for real don't get left on red pull up and flex your brainpower link below don't sleep grin
trying to access your inner gen z or something i don't know what's going on there
right he just
that was funny though sounded nothing like him but but the point of this is go check out
the neynar ai there you go and this is what adrian's working with them to try and figure out a way for us to do a like daily update short daily update so working on that this from arbitrum arbitrum launched i think arbitrum picked a bad week to do this but here you go we're leaping into the farcaster ecosystem because we believe defi can be the backbone for viral social mini apps and consumer friendly finance starting with integrations from noise app clanker nine lives by baiji and bungee exchange plus mini app creations from j c four p kenny g m on chain dot eth and compulsory along with $252,500 dollars in weekly rewards for mini app devs so that's exciting if you're developing mini apps and you wanna build on arbitrum here's an opportunity to be rewarded so and there's details about all the different things they just launched in terms of mini apps etcetera you can go check it out in this thread and it will be in the show notes so very cool good to see another and yet another chain leaning in yeah we like to see it
keep it coming all of them this from colin coins are now live for everyone on paragraph a new way to back ideas and get rewarded alongside the writers who spark them writers earn from your ideas no subs or paywalling needed readers support your support posts you love amplify great writing and share in the upside and then you can read the announcement below so this will be an interesting approach i i don't know we'll see we'll see we'll see about this this is kind of my same feeling on so there you go it gives you more information there as well when you open up the app it's my same feeling about zora coins so we'll see mhmm it it has to be integrated more easily into the feed and then in the bill ability to do that i think like it is in paragraph more integrated but we'll see we'll see how it all plays out but also subscribe to our weekly update we do a little weekly recap and we'd love for you to subscribe and this from sahil cura is making it easy to discover channels now you can surface the best content across topics you love powered by farcaster channels try the app why some of the best content about your fave topic or interest lives in channels most new users land on farcaster stumble upon channels and aren't sure what to do next we wanna make it easy for users to discover channels they vibe with channels with quality conversations want these to be persistent not lost in an ephemeral feed empower users want to double click on certain topics and don't know which channels have high signal users and content so there you go you can now go into topics and then dive in more into different channel feeds so very cool oops maybe just i don't wanna add it right now but you can see the feed right here click in and then you'll see more information from those channels as well so or you can avoid them completely if you don't wanna dive into the poidhics channel quite understandable attacking founders things like that so very cool
just you know just saying
i have i go in and out
have moments and then i have moments where i'm like no
yeah exactly bandwidth low and this from erica another look at what happens when you don't put the spam filter on 37 plus one word replies to a single cast that continued to come in while recording with more bots agents coming online spam filters affinity algorithms or whatever you choose to call them will become even more important to the end user experience it will take continuous tinkering learning experimenting to get them right and keep them efficient at doing what they're supposed to do sorting out content that is just not relevant to you so this was in regards to christopher saying we're testing notification filters this week notifications won't be pushed if our affinity prediction is too low e g you don't know the user the user is likely spammy their overall engagement is super asymmetrical for context this is what life is like without algorithms so so that's very cool so that is trying to help us like sort of filter all that out right now primarily what farcaster's doing is putting it in the show more replies part of it i'm assuming of filtering
yeah so there's two different filters that they have and also two different areas that are being filtered that we're talking about so this is specifically the notification stream so just figuring out like the activity that's coming in do you wanna be notified about it like do you care that this one random person liked your cast or do you care more that someone you know replied to your cast right and that's what we're trying to balance here what i'm talking about in my cast is just the spam filter on the protocol like in the feed
okay
okay
to see and also it was on accident at first and then i was like why am i getting so many notifications and it was because that was why label was off we we like took off the brakes essentially and it's insane i think i wanted to suggest to horsefacts that they do a purge day once a month where they take off the spam filter and just let everyone see like
the insanity
the mess it is yeah because recently there's just been a lot of like criticism on the algorithm and stuff like that and it's because they're experimenting with it it's that's what you have to do to find the good algorithm is you have to tinker with it and sometimes the tinkering will go wrong yeah which it did like a week ago or whatever when my follow feed was full of people that i'd never followed
or like interacted with so i think that's a little bit of what we were trying to show here too it's just like hey it's been a very long time since any of us have actually had to deal with spam that were on the network before this existed here's a friendly reminder of like how bad it is now yeah and it obviously sucks you know
so all the low effort replies are back wow wow
exactly yes very good yeah and also reactions and mentions like yeah if christopher tags me in something within an hour i will have a 100 casts literally copy and pasting what he tagged me in and so so we're
not seeing those right now because of the spam labels exactly if you take that off that's what you see
okay
and it it
destroys your experience it genuine like i had it off for a day while i was testing out notifications and i wanted to throw my phone at a wall like i was like i'm done with this like i can't even filter through using the tools that i built to filter through notifications to find the ones that i wanna engage with
that's really interesting because i do think there's a lot of discussion and a lot of pushback on the spam filtering and yes some people do get marked as spam they shouldn't be that's definitely a problem mhmm but i love that you're kind of talking about the other side of it as well so i think that's that's important has a question how can we join uno beta is that still open to join
uno beta is not open to join anymore because we are gearing up to actually release to app store so we're we're not taking any more testers as of right now but in a month ish a month ish you will be able to to join as an actual full user
yeah awesome there we go so very close very soon everyone will be everyone will be uno ing and yeah not the game not the game the it's game not the game segwider quiet by the way segwider while i have you here i am unable to tag you right now and i don't know why so i don't know if you're doing an unfollow kind of situation or something but trying to tag you for chatting and i haven't been able to just random random note while i've got you here couple more quick things the new degen app is out from jacek this is from jacek hey degens our new mini app just dropped making it super easy to tip degen on farcaster all tips happen on base and it'll support coinbase tba wallet going live tomorrow try it here similar to other tipping apps but just with degen so you do your approvals etcetera there's also some airdrops and lottery happening so i'm assuming that's similar to like a raindrop kind of situation so very cool launching launching today or launched yesterday actually it's already out there we go and this from tipn tipn allocations are refreshed a number of new allocations have been granted for week two so open the tipnirn.com mini app to check eligibility and see your new allocations also say hi to tippee who will be jumping in to assist folks with their tip in if they need it hey tippee happy tip in tuesday so tip in's been taking off i kept getting tagged by other people saying i had an allocation yeah did into the app and it would say i don't have an allocation so it was very confusing i don't know what was going on there but just to let you know i don't think i did so i think
i did stake some stuff but that was but also i think there's there's a few different reasons there's a few different ways that they were determining allocations and some of that was related to what you're staking but some of it wasn't it was just related to yeah so anyway if you have an allocation go check it out but also you can add in your own tokens to tip out as well so it works very similar to noise and lastly speaking of tipping this from jeff tipping doesn't improve content quality or materially contribute to growing this place okay so then there was a a discussion of course going on down here but i'm curious especially for those in the chat oh you have an allocation you have an allocation but you must approve usdc and configured a tip in order to see it oh thank you okay maybe that was it i didn't realize because every time when i go in it says no allocation so i'm like i don't know what you people are talking about i'm an allegation okay so here's how here's how i see this tipping thing and i'd love to get your take on it and also anyone in the chat no it's not going to make your content better however it is going to encourage help motivate etcetera those who do create good content to come back and continue doing it because when you're doing especially high level especially i'm thinking somebody like naomi afrochicks yeah you know where they're really you know there's a serious skill there there's a serious effort there the content she's doing a lot of times is you know farcaster first or only on farcaster things like that we want more of that i do anyway so this is a way to like continue to encourage those who are creating quality content to keep doing it and then hopefully over time for those who also do create some quality content to move on over and see that there's a benefit to doing it here rather than on traditional social media where you may earn nothing especially those who are maybe don't have huge followings but are really good at what they do so that's how i see that thoughts thoughts
i mean
i always
called you adrienne thoughts erica
you do have bangs yes
i think yeah i think it will obviously encourage higher quality content from a subset of creators that are really good creators yeah and of course it will motivate a bunch of ai swap at the same time
absolutely
it's a double edged sword in that sense and you can't avoid you cannot offer rewards to content creators without also subsequently opening the floodgates for ai bots and yeah ai swap to to enter
and there's just gonna have to be some efforts around you know blocking or whatever or
you know disallowing you know you're not gonna earn if it's just all ai slot kinda stuff but if it's good ai then great you know yeah i don't know there's all different things i've seen some great ai what some people might consider slop i find funny we'll see we'll see but and adrienne's working on yeah we're working on our own ai slop we're working on some like with taking warpie and making warpie a little ai character too so yes we'll see we'll see
i did
see the video of warpie trying to talk warpie trying to talk and she's working on different voices and stuff too to see what was
easy and crypto tipping culture is definitely a positive to have in the mix i agree this from istoad i was talking to the tipn dev yesterday about how all the various flows of tipn usdc etcetera flow with that mini app it's rather complicated alright interesting good to know and then this is this is a good point it's up to the community to determine who they wanna tip and if most choose high quality users then it can work well right so the big thing is finding ways to make sure that we don't end up with these i'm looking for a better word than circle jerk you know like excuse me yeah i know
like i can't i'm like i'm looking for a better word
like tipping rings like you don't want that and we always see people gaming the system degen had that so you know shout out jacek and degen who were tackling this issue first and early and wanting to you know bring that opportunity to everybody but also had to tackle those kind of you know how do we deal with people who are just tipping each other mhmm how do we you know manage that etcetera etcetera so that's always gonna be an issue to me it's less of an issue when you're tipping your own funds it's more of an issue when you're tipping other people's funds so we'll see we'll see yeah but i do think it's yeah don't feed the farmers exactly don't feed the farmers but you know or extractors you know farmers
it's alright you can farm well you know you can farm and have good content and things like that and you can farm in
a way that's very much bathing active participant and contributor to the network a 100% and still farm tips
yeah
exactly so it just depends on you know and and the other thing is as you're tipping and as you're you know maybe this is also another way to be a little more discriminating with your likes a little more discriminating with your recasts all that kind of thing so i don't know we'll have to just continue to see how it plays out and it will you know things will adjust as we go but i think today will be a big day and we'll see we'll see how things go from here
big day
so get ready brace yourselves i don't know could be nothing remember when we went permissionless
way back when and we
were all like and we got the well i know you didn't get your og token at first but anyway
i don't think you can anymore anyway
yeah you can't zora chain
and you need
give me enough tea
you would've you would've
oh that's funny so but looking back you probably should've i should've yeah so but right before right when that was happening everyone was like oh my god brace yourselves they're all coming and then it was like what what you know it was fine right and and until degen and frames happen frames friday happen that's when we saw the big influx
i think so
it took like three
months yeah yeah took a few months yeah djem was the towards the end of january and frames friday i think was february or was the last it was either the last friday of january or like the first friday of february something like that
yeah it was when they did the crazy friday shipping where it was like for four or five days every friday it was just this new thing and everyone was like damn you can't do this at 5pm on a friday
yeah can you still have those things
nobody went outside that weekend not a not a soul went outside that weekend weeks straight i wasn't even developing any i wasn't even developing frames
i was just using them all and
i couldn't look away away i'm like what's next and also near my speaking of also near my on my thing this is a girl scout cookie box cookies
degen degen yeah it's because it's green but yeah
yeah the girl scout cookie box is also handy frames friday frames friday souvenir alright this has been great thank you so much it's been amazing to have you here lovely morning it's been a lovely morning thanks everybody for joining in the chat and we'll be back with gm farcaster next monday at 11:30am eastern and we will have jesse pollock joining us around noon on monday and we'll break down everything that happens today and give a recap friday i will be on with linda at 2pm eastern vibe coding a mini app which should be incredible entertainment to watch me struggle with that so highly recommend it should be ridiculous and then also today don't forget we do have trivia happening at noon eastern go register come join us and try to win test your movie trivia and try to win some degen so that's it alright anything else erica that you wanna shout out before we wrap
no i'm great alright i'll shout out everyone posting taco bell content on the feed love it there are a few people who have started to post a lot of taco bell content and i'm like
more more taco bell content for erica please
yes please
okay shout out cassie probably taco bell's biggest
cassie more taco bell please alright and and with that everybody we will see you later have a great rest of your week and with that everybody bye bye