GM Farcaster ep292 Monday September 29 2025 with mintedmerch

Is anyone else having issues uploading video to Farcaster? I get stuck with a message that it’s sending cast with no success.

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? * Some good discussion about the SkyCastle project and launch. I find that in moments like these — when there is debate over a project — while I'm sure it's not fun for the people involved, those of us observing can learn a great deal about this space and how things work. Here are 3 thoughtful casts from those involved, that can lead you elsewhere: https://farcaster.xyz/toadyhawk.eth/0x96bb919a https://farcaster.xyz/itsbasil/0x752dc2fe https://farcaster.xyz/derek/0x04361be1 * @funghibull announced @playlarp --a weekly crypto fantasy game where you select your tokens for the week and hodl to see who wins the week. Early access, beta atm * @tryemerge by @atown continues to capture the imagination on the Timeline, which is rare--10 days straight of people enjoying creating 'workflows' to stylize your pfp--more use cases coming * Bracky was busy this weekend with European football, American football, The Ryder Cup, & the baseball season ending. $BRACKY on the weekends is now a staple FC activity for many * @betrmint held a @ponder contest for an art piece this week & after a good turnout of voters, @valentinaartt was the winner. She will create an art piece for a spin day this week and will make ~ $600 in support. That's what $BETR does. * /gmfarcaster today at 11:30 AM EST with their first 'ClankerCaster Monday' under a new Clanker Sponsoship, guests @katkartel.eth @svvvg3.eth will join @adrienne & @nounishprof to talk MintedMerch. Get all your FC & Base App News 💜 🟦

The ongoing follower purge is a real problem - and @jvaleska.eth @katekornish make valid points that it "feels bad", but I want to make a different point (hence the QC): it's a problem because it kinda makes the number of followers useless as a metric I currently have 56K followers but 126K at the protocol level, over 2x as many (you can check yours on explorer.neynar.com) Sure, social algos are always a bit of a black box, it's best to decouple input from output, yada yada - but how can I possibly gauge my progress if appear to be losing thousands of followers per week without a real reason? How do I know if I am actually losing followers or how many? A few people made very cool growth dashboards (@tanishq and @fun come to mind) but what good are those if the numbers are unreliable or meaningless? I understand this is a hard problem and the team is surely working on it, but I still wanted to give my 2 cents especially since I've recently started focusing a lot more on X and their approach is different. Spam and bots are a big problem there too, but they have not purged followers. Two last points: - The follower purge was announced (good) but, unless I'm wrong, it was supposed to be a one-off event. If purging has become an announced + ongoing process, that's not good - Could the purge have been voluntary? Could it be an option going forward? PS When I looked at Twitter again after years, I read a few articles and one suggestion was to manually purge "irrelevant" or inactive followers (you can actually Remove a follower without blocking / muting them) in order to get a more realistic follower count. I did that, went from ~300 to ~150 followers and now I'm over ~1k but it's an accurate number. I'm watching it closely and I can tell when strategy is falling flat or making people unfollow me. @neynar what are your thoughts on this?

So I was wondering what I was doing 576 days ago — and it’s extra weird that my streak broke that day so it might be a storage issue — cuz I DEFINITELY casted that day lol

People losing followers on Farcaster is actually a good thing because it trains your brain to accept the impernenance of things, especially fake and superficial social signals Higher spiritually, lower numerically 🤣

I'm on a 575 day cast streak! 🔥 Keep building your streak too!

Sorry I was touching grass

farcaster is he only platform where the more notifications i have about people following me, the less number of followers i actually have haha

looks like i'm on an 866 day cast streak... not sure if i'm a qdau or i need to touch more grass... 🤔

Was pretty locked into football and the Ryder cup today and tried to stay off my phone. Cool to see my algo full of sports on here. Doesn’t happen often, and I think it’s a net positive for Farcaster.

Good for pump but bad for crypto.

Looking for feedback on the wallet. Please share things you like, things that annoy you or feature requests you have. All your input is valuable and helps us keep improving the app!

Farcaster changes you

Oh yeah let's hang a pumpfun flag on the Hollywood sign, I'm sure that will really improve people's perception of crypto and provide an approachable onramp into the space! Will be interesting to see how Alon and team respond, imo they should not encourage this kind of sensational behavior if they want CCM to endure

got my first ugly produce box this weekend! way more affordable than my closest grocery store and all locally sourced produce that farms didn’t sell to grocers recipe ideas to use them all up: 1. beet and pear salad with toasted nuts and goat cheese 2. eggplant and bell pepper pasta bake 3. leek and acorn squash soup 4. creamy cucumber jalapeño yogurt sauce or a salsa verde

All Farcaster network staters that are in town for Token2049 or Solana APEX should come. https://farcaster.xyz/balajis.eth/0x68872c39

This one is cute — I’m the lil redhaired girl and my ray ray got snoopified! 🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜 Here's what @tryemerge just made for me using Peanuts-Style Avatar Transformation by @mathew.eth, spark yours up now!

oh, your follower count dropped?

Top 9 WORST candies: ① Whatever is in that orange wrapper ② Good & Plenty ③ DOTS ④ Mary Jane ⑤ 3 Musketeers ⑥ Milky Way ⑦ Tootsie Rolls ⑧ Sugar Daddy ⑨ Almond Joy I could not stand idly by allow this candy corn/smarties/necco blasphemy—had to fix it @burr.eth — I have dubbed in Mary Jane, Tootsie Rolls and Sugar Daddy. Probably could also find worse than Milky Way and 3 Musketeers but I hate those so they can stay lol But absolutely “whatever is in that orange wrapper” is #1!

Top 9 WORST candies: ① Whatever is in that orange wrapper ② Good & Plenty ③ DOTS ④ Candy corn ⑤ 3 Musketeers ⑥ Milky Way ⑦ Smarties ⑧ Necco wafers ⑨ Almond Joy

Finished the evening’s harvest a tic before 7PM; front running a bit of AM moisture. Arugula, cilantro, pac choi, & tatsoi from our late field planting. Traffic is definitely owing down at the stand for the fall as we shift from summertime favorites. We grow a small crop of leeks; they don’t pencil out well so limited production. Started harvesting the one bed we planted today; will have them around for a few weeks depending on pace of sales.

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Important PSA about $mintedmerch

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Tabouleh incoming yum

Idk if anyone can relate w/ this, but any $ made from rewards goes right back into the farcaster / base ecosystem… Any friend that is launching a token, immediately purchased. Top blast all of them. Ride it to the bottom then do it all over again. Thats the power of my friendship. Some call it being a horrible trader. I call it being a loyal friend. THATS JUST HOW I DO IT. THATS JUST HOW SLIME SHOWS LOVE TO HIS TWINS.

lol https://farcaster.xyz/six/0xcdb44dfc https://farcaster.xyz/greg/0x8b9e8fa5

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The summer garden hasn’t given up yet Few cherry tomatoes look good Will the heirloom tomatoes turn from green to red? I’m doubtful Japanese eggplant is still producing And holy hell Batman what am I going to do with that much parsley

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