Transcript: Pour Yourself a Cup of Ambition and Build Your Own Client: GM Farcaster ep384

adrienne, nounishprof · GM Farcaster

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good

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it's better than one okay oh yeah it's not working okay

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it's thursday

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still not working but that's okay

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what oh no which one the forecaster account

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yeah just the forecaster one but everything else is working and adrienne i had to go get myself a cup of ambition so i'm ready

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pour yourself

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i got my i poured myself a cup of ambition we are ready for the show yeah i've been just absorbed but we'll talk a little bit about that it won't be the only thing i promise but i will be wearing this hat for the whole entire show in honor of dolly

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k mac will appreciate the different hat style

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different hat nobody predicted sparkly purple cowboy hat in the prediction market no i've worn this before when i came back from nashville when i got this shirt my dolly shirt and my hat which was in the dolly section of the country music hall of fame so it was the only things i bought in nashville so anyway we are live we are at a different time our farcaster streams are not picking up so please go retweet recast let people know tell them to go pour themselves a cup of ambition and get their get their mosey their butt swollen over here and we are gonna get this party started we'll be back on the other side of this little intro this 41 so in the meantime go do your thing

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welcome to gm farcaster bringing you everything from breaking news to spicy memes to the deep lore shaping this vibrant digital community more than just a show gm farcaster is your digital third space where the community connects

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to keep you plugged in so grab your coffee and let's dive

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in with your hosts manif proff and adrienne for another episode of gm farcaster

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gm farcaster it is thursday august 27 and you are here with knowledge prop and adrienne ford twenty nine minutes of farcaster news to start your day thirty seven is more likely i'm still doing some retweeting and letting people know that i am wearing a purple cowboy hat and they should get in here if they wanna see it because this will be the probably only other time you'll ever see this on me i can't fathom another moment when i would wear this so on on air so everyone should get in here and and enjoy we do have and we do have some interesting news that popped off last night so here we go what we're gonna start with let me just do one more re retweet live now alright and you take care of farcaster because i didn't go on there and say anything so hopefully hopefully people know we're live on it alright so obviously first things first miss dolly parton passed away at 80 years old and i did share i did do the gift of the new york times obit which is now on track and i believe it may have hit the number to be the most read obituary of the new york times ever so that is just wild you were just saying like before we started is there anyone who ever who has such like that everyone

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univertial adoration like there's not one person who has one thing bad to say and people can't agree on anything

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except nothing

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this is it holly

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literally this is it this is the only thing and if you can't see my background let me pull my background up as an overlay just so you can see fully this was the whole entire world lit up in pink like the world you've got empire state building eiffel tower sydney opera house like just everywhere tokyo rock and roll hall of fame like just amazing all over the place los angeles everywhere just everywhere it was crazy and everyone just the empire state building turned themselves pink at 09:25pm nine to five just in case you needed to me to work that out for you but just amazing that like this impact that she had and then by the way on our tiny little social network which is mostly millennial dudes full full of dolly parton which was just incredible and the gen xers came in with a a little bit more and so this was from brad q seeing so much dolly love on the feed figured some of you might like this brilliant podcast series about her talking a good bit also ken burns country music documentary the episode on the seventies has a lot about her in a great episode so couple couple more things and then this was incredible too the buckingham palace the royal family posted this remember the late great dolly who brought joy comfort and inspiration to so many including the millions of children given free books through her imagination library we will always love you and it was the band playing nine to five like the palace band so just wild and believable this was from boiler on her dolly just go out and be good to people today simple very easy and trish posted all day long one thing after another she was posting various things about dolly so just go look at trish's whole entire feed but now it's tim curry so we didn't have a shift but you just go back a day it's all dolly parton and she posted a lot of cool stuff i had suggested to burr that we should do some women in music to honor dolly parton and it was she did twenty four hours of women in music trivia in the lobby yesterday and it was pretty awesome it was a lot of fun and there was a lot more people it it brought a lot more people out so there was a lot of people playing it was really fun and yeah so that was the dolly dom of of our of our times and just amazing but just an incredible human if you're not familiar like i mean i'm sure you are by now for god's sakes but just go read her a bit if you're if you're not and just you know everything that she that she took her fame her money and put it to work and like lifted people up within her own little area of the world which is very poor like the appalachian area of tennessee and just like you know pigeon forge and just created a whole economy for not just giving a handout but giving a leg up to people which was incredible so so that's all yeah i was just very sad because i hadn't had enough sadness in my life in the past few weeks i needed more and then i doubled down on that by watching steel magnolias and amazing i got out of bed

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just amazing alright couple more quick things along this line no one has yet to guess this i was i'm going to give i was going to give away 500 ks better i might even make it a million nobody has guessed this song my timer goes off i have a certain timer that i use for trivia i use it for other things too i use it to start the show actually i use the same timer same song it's a song it's an 80 song it's from 8283 it goes off and what is that song and no one has guessed it you can look in these replies and at least rule out a few things because brad was all over

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the place this song i've heard this song because sometimes we'll be on in our green room when i hear the alarm going off

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do you remember what it is no

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zero recollection i can't even begin to guess

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that's hilarious i'm gonna i i still waiting something but if you think you wanna take a guess go to this post and throw something in the replies it'd be funny if it went off while i was sitting here this was really cool another we also had an artist i don't know if you say it yayoi yayoi who just passed away and this was some amazing art from our friend miguel garest dali and yayoi he did not do one for tim curry but los fomos did and this was taco tim shaped my childhood made it wholesome and eccentric at the same time rhps which is rocky horror picture show is one of my favorite visual inspiration source this was one of my thematic references for glass tableware guide we made for los fomos which i thought that was really cool so very cool yeah another one another one that was taken but he was 80 also like but still like i wasn't in the mood like we could have just not done that this week there's a there are a lot of very funny and i did post one of them like videos and stuff on tiktok where the grim reaper is getting his ass chewed out making errors and also i did post the bubble wrap of cher this is my cher mug that i'm using for my cup of my ambition today don't test me she is also 80 i'm not in the mood

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do you think she's just like staying inside no one's loving her

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she better be because the gays will absolutely lose it they can't have one more just no no no no we are not doing that so no cher leave her alone okay moving on this this is not a pop culture podcast but just today it is we had two spaces earlier this week both discussing both with folks who have proposals in to take over farcaster one was peachy with cassie which they're calling a community call it was the state of the union that peachy runs a lot with the community and she had cassie on talking about hypersnap and what her plans are and then we had jeff goldberg back from wherever he's been with suji the founder and ceo of mass network doing an interview there and then that was followed by another like just community party hang time afterwards where by the way some people thought there was only two people who put proposals in

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there are many many like there were many i put i put one in

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you put one in we showed some of the other day there were plenty of cats that were in there but there are actual real like other proposals that were being put in and that's why rish was like cutting things off because they had some good ones and they were they were done but that like for some reason i think there were some folks who thought it was just like a this or this kind of choice and there could be multiple others well then and during during the third call there was a confirmed there was a third so at least a third but again at least

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yeah well cassie's obviously public with hers and she has been public and suji has as well

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right on so those are the only ones that were public yeah and rish had said he wasn't going to you know that anyone could make them public but he wasn't going to say except then he did he did confirm one of the third hold on where is it let me find that real quick

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people ask me so many times he had to admit he had to give something

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to you that it was you yeah that you

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it's sierra i'm a

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serious person time it's adrienne obviously with her popcorn her popcorn proposal is the third contender so there you go now you know yeah now you know i don't

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know if i was clear but just say it was it's that is organic popcorn

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oh oh yeah i don't think people know that it's organic pop and it's you're it's not just the photo of the popcorn it's the actual popcorn that's being proposed

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yes yes yes that that all those kernels for forecaster whatever you see in that photo it's i can't even be more clear also hi jeff goldberg

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oh hi jeff i've always been lurking hi jeff he's like beetlejuice you just say his deer three times and he up here

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we love you and hi bara lucid and ben and hi everyone fx there's a lot

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of yeah hi all the friends in the chat

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and and there's an mf'er as well

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oh we love those mf'ers i don't know which one it is but it might be the might be the one we love the most

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it's emily it's emily

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okay emily the one we love the most which i have something about him at the end of this so buckle up for that one i'm saving that for the end floor had a great thank you floor is all i'm gonna say thank you for the work thank you for your service he's been doing the he did this and he did it quickly too the transcripts of both the first and second call the third one was not recorded but the after party had no recording but the transcript is really good has a nice summary at the beginning or you can dig in a little deeper but thank you floor for that super super helpful and really appreciate it and really appreciate you know jeff and peachy and putting in the time to host those calls too so and and the recordings for those are right here that's we're gonna include like right over here there's a little button you just can't see it so these links will be in the show notes as well if you want to go back and listen

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and then there was this i think all parties are in full agreement with this whoever becomes the new steward owner yes can we please use the word owner by the way i did submit a word of day suggestion of farcaster the intern must be retained we will absolutely riot and fork if intern is lost so little love for the intern on the on the timeline and that was in response to comprenegardless of whoever cry requires farcaster i highly recommend retaining the intern running the farcaster handler handle i don't know who you are but you have been doing an amazing job and we agree so and i believe the intern i thought i saw the intern in the chat but if you're still there intern we love you you know we love you

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then there was this yep there there's the intern

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that was and that was not my timer that just went off that was my r two d two text message alert so my my my little ringtones are fun i'm just saying i'm very whimsical this from saying jill one thing that struck struck me about the pieces that i caught last night this is in regard to the two calls or three calls i'm not sure which ones he was on a lot of the things people proposed were clients alternative clients with different ways of interacting with the protocol why haven't those been built and why does it take new management for that to happen my brain is having a hard time reconciling demand for more decentralization with demands for a central acquirer entity to build weirder client experiments opportunity for another client is a meme but it's also true be the client you want to see in the world and we're going to talk a little more about that in just a moment because the client's been open source which i'll get into in a moment couple more things we've gotten this question which we thought it was obvious but i think i had to make it apparently very clear that the cef is on pause as a clinker is being sold so everything's on pause and we don't know if it'll ever be back it's going to be completely up to whoever the new owner is what they want to do with it may have nothing to do with us we're going to be wrapping up like you know sending out 1099s to whoever we have to and getting everything wrapped up probably within the next week like i'm trying to get it done like hopefully by this weekend so that is my plan so if i let that hang i'm gonna forget all about it so we're wrapping things up but if you want to see what we did you can go to the cef page on gmforecaster.com and see all the things that we did with it and all the projects that were and the projects are still pumping out like fun activations and things you've got you know burr and plants with the lobby they're doing another they bought another $500 usdc worth of better that they're using for different games like trivia and all different things within the lobby you've got poids still like kicking every day with bounties so all kinds of stuff still happening with the cef but there's no more rounds coming up so just to be very clear for those who weren't aware i guess we had to make it explicit and this from jake over on twitter which i forgot to pull up so let me do that real quick but this was very nice there was so much talent on farcaster it still is builders and artists especially people interested in new ways of living operating at the edges there was real engagement on posts not just likes and dunks like actual interactions crypto was anything but boring it was more it was about more than just trading more than stable stocks and perps you could just build any kind of app and people would want to try it it was real crypto native social and that's some of what i miss about it you wouldn't know if you weren't there so true story

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is that a eulogy

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we were there apparently he was writing a eulogy but i appreciated the sentiment but also we're still here still is still is exactly been broad but i get it

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i get it i would say

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is it what

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there is less

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yes

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builder and experimentation than there was three years ago two years ago or whatever that's okay not dead

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not dead yet but yes i get it i get it and then we have this from rish it's time to make everyone happy with a good airdrop soli sorry i totally forgot

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this is funny

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because somebody had posted hi rish it's been a long time since farcaster had a special airdrop first of all farcaster never did an airdrop farcaster the team

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i know but farcaster

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besides nfts besides nfts

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they did nfts and they facilitated airdrops through the wallet

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right

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from other teams like we've gotten plenty of free money over the years

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but it wasn't farcasters like they didn't they never launched a token still okay so i just thought that was really funny but yeah that's that's what will fix everything is the the airdrop the airdrop is what will fix me clearly

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what i love about this i don't know the person who casted that or castcom i

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i don't either

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probably not someone anyway obviously it's deserving of a dunk rich was very funny it's funny but i also think there's so many people who genuinely believe that who genuinely believe and have no concept of like where does where do air drops come from but it's just like give us some free money and this will fix everything anyway right

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it's almost like yeah they don't know token do what would the token do what would the token do what would the token do what would the token do what would the it's been a minute since we've heard dan so yeah that is always the question what would the token do but anyway

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so and where does it come where does the value come from

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where does the value come from out of thin air apparently apparently that's where it comes from adrienne liquidity is not a thing that people wanna think about

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some are complaining that the network hasn't given them absolutely anything pretty sure you are top of the leaderboard check your check your

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i just realized who it was that's funny yes bert bert has gotten nothing nothing from this along the way at all okay my other links are opening that's why you're getting a little lag for me but also we do have a shout out so i'm gonna do this in between while i open up my other links and this just came in this morning so you can do a shout out with us you can just ask warpy you can ask banker maybe if you're in the terminal i think that's what we figured out is the only thing that works and you can use your agent to do it through our website if you go to g m farcaster dot com slash shout out you'll be able to see exactly what you need to do that so this is a shout out we got from tedxchris farcaster eats first 10 s 10 x warplets nft airdrop and mini app launch speaking of airdrops and mini app launch plus a 10 wait list this is at 10x.meme and you can contact at 10xmeme.eth if you wanna learn more or just reach out to ten x chris but very cool i believe his i'm guessing oh he said he did it through warpy yeah he did this one via warpy so you can just ask warpy.eth if you wanna do a shout out and it can be anything we've had people just say we had netno's last week saying nice things to builders we've had people just say nice things to us less that's great

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we love you less less

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we love you less and then this was what chris was shouting out and this is good tech the agentic ad purchase process went very smooth thanks warpie and adrienne so very cool so there you go 10 did some booking and then he got a little confirmation there right there there you go

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yeah it's cool and by the way just if you haven't heard us talk about these shout outs i just wanna remind the whole purpose of this was our kind of way to experiment with agentic payments so you can book a shout out using x four zero two or tempo's mpp and it's

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still waiting

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almost there's zero zero tempo so far i gotta put that spell card out

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and oh did you say a town is yes is working yes so

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a town's headed to tempo yeah

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yes yeah well he's in go to market so i'll tell him he's gotta yeah

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tell him to go go do a shout out

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come on yeah

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tell him he's losing

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he's losing out

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i like how she says by the way i like how she says we wanted to experiment that's funny that's cute

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we do but we wanna we

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we do wanna experiment but i don't wanna take any credit i don't wanna take any credit in building any of this

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well i'm just saying do a shout out the price is almost nothing it's just for fun like it's just a way to learn and and kind of be early users in the agentic economy we also have opportunities for nonagent shout outs as well so you can just do it the old fashioned way and dm us will gm tempo be next no there's no social network

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let me let me just say this we haven't been approached and i don't

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we weren't approached to do dm we weren't approached to

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do dm

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forecast that's true

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but what will we even talk about there's not much to talk about there no that will not be a thing but we'll see what's next because i honestly don't know we're just kinda waiting things out at the moment alright moving on we got some other thing we got one other big thing to talk about and one other funny thing to talk about opportunity for another client so this is from manan this one has been a long time in the making both web and mobile farcaster clients are now open source few notes snapshot will be automatically will automatically be updated weekly we removed the wallet implementation because it's not part of the protocol we've hardened this code best we can and open source means more eyes throw hammers at it and if you find something tell us via dm or file a github issue in the repo we won't be merging in contributions we'll leave that decision for the next stewards owners of farcaster so there you go and then rish also had said open source open source primary client and there was some discussion down here a little bit about the back end now do the back end and rish was saying you're self hosting the 100 k a month plus back end on your local and there was a little bit of back and forth about we just want to see the code but no they're not going to do that but most people are pretty happy to see this happen and very excited about seeing the open source so lots of nice little comments here and then we had a few people already get get going but this from nikolai i thought this was really useful now that fc client is open source just want to share this again if you're building a new client please consider these ideas and it was five ways traditional social media enslaves you and it was actually a very good and interesting article so go get a read and then this from say angel this was back when he was talking about the chats and he said some good points i think under i think people underestimate how hard it is to build a good client social experience especially without proper funding and then once it's built you need people to care it's certainly not build it and they will come and that was my point as well if i can find it i wrote a little bit of something about that we've seen many many many many clients like even without this open source of this client of the main farcaster client we've seen many clients come and go and some of them have been very good and didn't get any traction i still think zapper was the was the way base should have been and i flat out told jesse that at basecamp last year it was the the way that read for traders was fantastic because it was very much the social feed but without the noise it was just specifically for traders social feed and it was just really well done like even the way it displayed nfts everything very well done shout out sab and that didn't take off so that's already been you know that's done and that was probably one of the best ones we've seen we've seen you know degen tried that still exists in a different form we've seen sowfa is another one that is very good for what it is like it has a very specific point of view i like the way it's done it's curated it's a different approach that's the only way you're going to get people using a client is if it has a different approach if it's you're trying to do the same thing that farcaster is already doing you're up against a big wall it's going to be very hard but and nounspace was really interesting i mean and it had a great founder nounspace tom i've met him a couple of times have photos with him fantastic dude a little stiff

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i thought some of his ideas fell fell a little flat to be honest

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yeah a little flat but you know always there showed up you know great in a photo op but that was the other thing nouns did three funded three clients way back when and linx had said something about this and i just corrected it because he said i haven't actually built one myself so i could be full of shit but at the hypersnap kickoff meeting kickoff meets difficulty to create a client was emphasized by multiple devs oh thank you they mentioned things like custom feeds spam blocking and data model around threaded conversations iirc and more uno spent like 1,000,000 making their client recaster spent $20 so we're averaging 50 k a client also noun spent 50 ks it was 100 ks each for 300 for three clients it was 300 ks in that proposal and didn't get very far the only one that actually got made was nounspace from that particular proposal and they were funded a little bit more the other two couldn't get it off the ground and actually returned the funds so it's not easy like for for what people are are saying and and it kind of i like six's comment here it's great that farcaster client is open source now everyone who is passionate about how it should be open source will start using it to build new clients and fulfill the ideals of decentralization

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that should be taken with the sarcasm it was meant but that said we do have a couple people who've been building already and it's kind of cool so i think if you're gonna run something locally i think this is fantastic i think that is the great you know use case of the open source code is you want to do this a little differently but don't expect everyone out to be like using your client i think that is sort of you know keep your expectations low but if you have something you want for you and maybe you know you can charge a little bit for somebody who might find it interesting as well that could be cool and then flor also said having fun with the open source fc client towncaster is a digital town square where casts appear as chatter when pulled in channelcaster is a stab at a channel first view there's been other stabs at that shout out kira allowing you to adopt casts into other channels so this one's kind of interesting you know again like these are both very interesting and fun but they're gonna run locally as far as i know and then there's this one from say angel he just wants warp cast back so we'll see we'll see what he does i think he just wants the name there was one more thing where is it here it is wvens our friend had a really good cast here spent some time taking a look at farcaster client now now that it's been open sourced lots of good stuff mit license web and mobile both in there installed in just a few minutes and built in even less runs locally against the production api serious feat of development and shout out to folks who have worked on this at maynard and merkle the client code is open but the api isn't the client talks to a private api with 600 unique paths seven eighty plus operations once you count methods to be fair you don't need all of them and a good chunk is admin internal tooling plus wallet swaps tips quests a minimal client could work with less but would still be a lot of surface area the api allowless origins you can run locally local host and farcaster.xyz/warpcast.com work this is browser level though c o r s so yes you could proxy it but you'd be routing routing around a control that's there on purpose and can be closed whenever so you can fork it run it change whatever you want etcetera locally but the biggest challenge is there's no back end to point at snapchain stores protocol messages casts reactions follows profiles verifications but not things like dms notifications sessions feed or search for example to generate a home feed a client needs to be able to read follows fetch cast merge sort populate profiles count reactions resolve embeds paginate etcetera snapchaine doesn't do this you need an indexer nayanar sells one or you build your own not easy also requires a lot of resources and maintenance especially with increased usage which is hard to accurately budget for incredible point there by the way if you do build the most amazing client guess what people start using it it's gonna cost you more money so three layers snap chain protocol data an indexer like neynar makes it query queryable a product back end dms auth notification search catalog client needs all three if you wanna build your own but with this open client you can now point at 680 plus operations and see exactly how much product sits between the protocol and the actual app good opportunity to learn and build more folks that have expressed interest in taking the helm would benefit from sharing more details on how they technically operate and maintain this in a scalable way great point it's definitely expensive requires multiple full time resources need some sort of healthy revenue model there's enough public information now with the release of the of the open client to fully scope it out ps a token is not a revenue model q what would the token do it just buys more time to get back to where we are now and then you have the by the way and then you have the app store as a as a nice little barrier as well so that was kinda he kinda said a lot more technical what i was saying in a lot more general way of like there's a lot more to this than just you know build it and people will use it and we've seen a lot of people try so because someone else and i forgot to grab this one posted everyone's gonna be running their own client i'm like oh no they're not they are so not

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like no 90% of the network is not creating their own client period full stop not happening the 10% of you crazy devs absolutely are gonna create your own version of it customize it the way you want play around with it and then you might have one or two people who actually try to make a go but no because even even some folks who are technically capable are too busy they don't have time to do that they're not going to do that and there's a ton of us who are not that technically capable and who surprise don't even use github on a regular basis at all

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but you have claude so what do you doesn't now you're just being lazy

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no just that's it i'm just being lazy we know how this ends people like even with your best agent it can't do everything for you like you still need to know when it screws up and how to fix it so if you're not a coder like you can give it a shot but you're gonna you're gonna get so frustrated and i know this just from building tiny little go build a little game or something first and then see how it goes before you try and build a freaking client a break

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build a static website

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yeah do something else first before you try this like insanity but for those who have the ability like fantastic i'm curious to see what everybody does it's gonna be fun and what are your thoughts on that by the way the more technical of us

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oh i what i mean are you building a client it's also not yeah but it's also like if you have a code base it's not just easy to say now it's open source i just had to flip a switch on github you know like i know there was a lot of work probably prepping the code base to to put make it public so manan is definitely a quieter likes to work behind the scenes and i had made a joke that we know why he's been quiet because he's been but i think he just prefers to do that but i know it just it takes a lot of work and i think it's easy to criticize because there's never enough oh you didn't open source the back end oh we still have to use apis we wanna do it like

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yep

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easy easy to criticize but if you look at what neymar has done in the last six months under their stewardship and by the way we were just talking about owner of our steward when rish and his announcement he called themselves were the next words of farcaster

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i know and i hated that

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and i know that this is how they saw right like you had really strong founder product vision from dan and vy rish had been in the ecosystem like doing infrastructure support it really makes sense that they're the next kind of likely

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owners of of kind of the the entity but and and i'd have to pull up rish's cast from last week but he's they've really done a lot to move farcaster towards more credible neutrality and and decentralization in terms of adding validers validators adding validators in other geographies geography yeah geography you know and oh and moving things i think they move something to just the permission of like who's deciding who gets to be a validator there's just like a few things that we're moving one step and every time they announced it it's an opportunity for people to say you haven't done enough and you're you're not you know but they could have done nothing right so it's just one step so open sourcing the client is a massive i just think it's a it's it's really nice that they did it they didn't have to

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yeah

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they they didn't have to yeah they did it it's not enough to just like kinda like pick it up for anyone to run but it also shows and then for everyone who's critiquing the protocol like so the issue is like you're trying to make an at scale social network in a decentralized way that competes with kind of at scale networks i from an engineering perspective and i'm this isn't my expertise but i imagine it's really hard to do that in a in a decentralized public way so

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yeah for all the people

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who are unhappy like a lot of people are just unhappy with the protocol right it's not this like it's just the way it's it's and and i'll just say like there were these developer calls every month since the beginning of time and they weren't that well attended

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no and people are to be like 15 people until they started calling in a community call and then it was like

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a good amount of people showed up

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yeah yeah

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and then people are criticize them how the protocol got built then because right i forgot who it was had some like legitimate criticism i think against kind of

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tf maybe no

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i don't know no oh back yeah but but either way you you i don't know just

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the yep

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none of this is new and none of this is necessarily rish's like rish didn't change that much with the original kind of architecture of the protocol and then you kind of you make some decisions and you kinda get boxed in you know like certain constraints get boxed in so tldr is all is good job they take it

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oops so say that again

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i said just great effort to do one more thing yeah towards openness

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absolutely

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so i i

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do have to say this yes you should make barcaster and here's why only peep only dogs allowed

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yeah that's interesting do that and also you have uncle horace to lean on for assistance so yes even though your paws are small i think you could pull it off so yes barcaster could be interesting

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thanks what she said jokes

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and then zapper was dope yeah rip zapper i channels still exist you just have to use them they're just not on the protocol yet but they were yes did they remove channels no they did not

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no they channels are on the protocol

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oh they they are now yeah but they weren't for a long time yeah

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but they are now was that a fip merged in or was that just i

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don't know you know what that's a good point i don't know if there's another one discussion anyone might have just been discussion i like noun space but wanted it with channels okay yeah and at that point channels were not on the protocol so yeah there was that

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seems to be a trend around these parts returning investor funds yeah that's a good approach if you can figure out a way to run your business where you don't use all the funds from the investors that gives you another shot at life somewhere down the road too and you don't shoot yourself in the foot with your investors instead of just blowing it on you know black jacket hookers that's i watched i watched best little you know whorehouse in texas yesterday too so anyway yeah nft i saw something about that an nft focused client that's another way to go yes community call was a great idea i believe maybe it was the intern who came up with that they didn't it was a great idea to change to add in community call so it wasn't just dev call because i never went to the dev call i would just get the notes from you and we would talk about it here but like i wasn't gonna go because i figured i wouldn't understand it so even if i would have my there was like this block for me of like oh that's not for me so and i think by adding this like community call piece that opened it up to others who could who felt comfortable being there so alright anything else on this before i do one last thing

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no no no

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oh yes to crypto wants to make it clear that he would accept an out of thin air drop out of thin air drop

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okay listen to lex fridman dhh podcast published yesterday and you may change your mind about each person having their client i will not i will not change my because i'm speaking for those of us who are not as technically inclined and even if i could do there may be a time where it's very easy i'm just not gonna spend that time like even if i could do it i probably could it would take me in a lot of a lot of time it would i would have to lean on a lot of resources and i don't wanna so i literally the whole point of me making my own client would be so i could get a trending feed i'll just keep badgering those above me to get a trending feed eventually that's all going that way see like yeah all you want is animated pfps

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that's like you know like kenny just wants his chronological following it's like you know you know we could just wait i can wait it out i'm fine i can live without it i had it for a little while it came back to sopa and now it's gone because i think something with the neymar endpoint disappeared or something

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now you have me thinking like what's the one thing i would have in my client

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yeah what's the one thing that's missing for you

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i can't think of anything

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that's literally for me the only and i there's little things i like like there's little things i like about threads they're not important but there's things i like about it you know what i mean like that i would you know might be just additional fun emojis like it's but it's not like life or death where i'm gonna go spend hours and hours of my time to build a client just so i can make something turn into a butterfly no i'm good i'm fine i'm fine with that oh bert threads is connected with instagram and it is a twitter like platform that i only recommend if you're looking for pop culture content

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bert might not know what instagram is he's orson dog

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you know what bert would do do well on instagram probably probably crush it over there

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we didn't capture we didn't pull the news the meta news yesterday from yesterday did we about what was the meta news about that next week

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the oh the money that they had to pay out and the changes

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with a nice little fine and had to and yeah yeah and rolling out all the restrictions to minor accounts

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the children's yes the kids are

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the kids are alright children yeah they're a little yeah

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lot of ex lot of changes to limit how much kids can use kids under i forget i think it's under is it under 17 i think it's under 17 yeah it's it's gonna get really weird mom says i'm too weird for instagram okay i get it i get it i'm just saying there might be brand deals to be had you're just you know you're fabulous that's what i'm saying but they did well you know what's really funny i saw some adults going can i use that setting

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i know limits like how long you

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can be on like look at the difference

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i saw some

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yeah like that might be something i wanna use

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yeah threads never made sense to me either jeff honestly because i i immediately wrote it off and here's where i changed my mind and it literally was two months ago and you might have missed this love island i was looking for people that that were talking about stupid pop culture things like love island and summer house and like my little piece of my brain that like that it's my you know stupid turn my brain off funny things and i found that they are actually quite humorous over there there's a crew of people who spend a lot of time on threads who are just funny and they're just they're just very funny so and so if for pop culture news it's great and if you like every once in a while i just find randomly funny things over there and i usually just share them on farcaster if they're really funny but otherwise i would agree there is not it didn't make sense to me either but it's somehow there are folks that have who probably don't share very much on instagram themselves like they're not photo centric they are more text based so they end up over there actually adding something to that so oh there you go the intern will send you a doc about threads bert so you can know exactly what it's all about if you wanna get over there alright i have one last thing adrienne and you may have missed this completely but it was hilarious emily jr okay william shatner was having a moment let me just say emily jr went in and said i'll buy a 100 copies of your book right now if you post these three words and nothing else grok has money in an original post they were going back and forth and i thought this deal might actually happen like they were ready to set he said i get payment first and i don't see anything and he said ready set up the g set up the group chat i'm ready to go and the deal was i will buy a 100 books keep a few copies for my son and i donate the rest to whatever william wants he was ready to just wherever you want to donate them i'll donate them in consideration william shatner will post grok has money as an original post from his ex account and not delete it this will have to be a handshake agreement in good faith which i'm comfortable with so funny i was like this is great this actually might happen do you think the idiots of crypto twitter could let it happen

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no because somebody went in there and said you should use banker to do it and then william shatner posted that he has blocked bankr

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because it created a coin without obtaining any permission it's a reckless system i want nothing to do with so it got ugly and then everyone went crazy and i'm literally in dms with emily junior like i'm like even saying to people in replies can you guys just shut up and let him cook like he's trying to get something done which is actually kind of interesting which he you know like it's a benefit to both like this might be something that he'll do but you guys are gonna ruin it and that's what they did and they ruined it because they kept pushing on like why won't you use banker and i was like oh my god leave leave the man alone and i don't know if it's him or someone else running his account but they're actually brilliant on the account i will say that on the william shatner account mhmm like yeah they're really they know what they're doing it's like because then i was going back and forth with trish where she was she was upset that somebody was trying to get you know a celebrity and i'm like no no no no no i'm like i don't think like if you dig in like they know what's going on like they're trying to get some books sold don't worry about it

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right

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it's all good this is beneficial to both i know they they yeah but they just yeah he was not down to clown he was not down to clown but also he was i think he would have made that deal i really do i think he was right there and apparently like he's been talking about x money and all this so then so that's why emily was like no no we'll use x money that's what he likes i'm good with it like he you know he was making a deal and it was it was really funny it was really funny so anyway it was one of those crypto twitter moments that you're like is this really happening is william shatner and emily jr actually trying to get a deal done in the replies on twitter at like midnight on a random weekday and yes that's exactly what was happening until the idiot reply guys got in there and ruined it so stop it

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anyway yolantis that's really funny i did the same thing by the way i deleted threads and then but it didn't delete it still was there and turned out later on i wanted it anyway so there you go

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really funny oh and that's the other thing yeah when i go on fb i you know what's really funny is when sometimes people will post something on facebook and they've connected it to their threads you don't have to connect it and then it shows up over on threads it gets really funny sometimes because the people on threads will it will just randomly show up in an algo and they'll pick up on like a conversation that has nothing to do with them there was one where like someone some dude was married also had a girlfriend also had a fiancee and then they all like found out about each other and it was all this huge conversation on threads and they had no idea it was over on threads because they didn't realize it it was funny i enjoyed those stupid things but be careful out there don't connect your threads to your facebook account if you don't want things like that to happen so i think that's it what did i forget

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i think we got it all

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i think we got it all alright everybody go make go make yourself a client i'm really looking forward to barkcaster i think i think there's something there bert love to see it

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i agree

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bert yeah just bert bert is the icon of the whole thing i love it yeah and i'm actually and nikolai we mentioned you i don't know if you heard i have your your article that you had posted about what people let me find it what people should know before they go creating clients

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by the way traditional social media enslaves you and people should go read that it was very interesting and things to think about if you're actually going to you know create something that you're actually putting out in the world not just for yourself but also i'm curious to see what people create with the clients like i've seen a couple that were that were cool which we showed i'm curious to see i know you i know you're very busy but i saw you were you're busy with your matcha this morning but maybe after maybe after

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alright i think that's it for us we're on again monday is that right yeah it's not labor day yet that's following week are you traveling anywhere i don't even know what our schedule is anymore

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we're we're prepping we're getting very close to our three year anniversary

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very close

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we're like a few weeks away from

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so we'll be we're gonna be on at least until then after that no guarantees but we promise to give you a heads up i've heard a i've heard a lot of suggestions like jam tempo that's not happening and other suggestions of how we might rebrand should we choose to

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remains to be seen what what will what will come but we'll be here on monday at 11:30 i think eastern i believe is what time we'll be on and how many times will farcaster be declared dead before then obviously thirty seven that was an easy one obviously alright it's been fun guys chat's been fun today seen some friends we haven't seen in a bit so thanks for hanging with us and we will be back on monday we'll see you then and until then y'all come back now you hear bye bye

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