400 Episodes, ZeroShadow & One Very Purple Goodbye: GM Farcaster ep400

Did you know you can still mint this birthday NFT? “But Prof, what would the token do?” Utility incoming ♠️♥️♣️♦️🃏

🔥 New LOBBY feature 🔥 Tap the purple icon to watch the most recent /gmfarcaster Try it today! Cc: @warpee.eth @nounishprof @adrienne

I had Opus do a launch video bc that's what's in fashion these days. The headline is (afiak) there just isn't a better agent UX for crypto builders than @splits ...but lmk what you're using and why you like it, we'll learn from them and keep making this better. https://splits.org/blog/add-agents-to-your-multisig/

$1024 IN PRIZES FOR VIDEOS ON THE COMMUNISTIC SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES Next up in our interactive book club: The Communistic Societies of the United States, by Charles Nordhoff. Back in 1875, "communistic" meant something more like "profitable voluntary commune" or "startup society" than its modern meaning. Around that time, Nordhoff toured America's intentional communities, like the Shakers, Harmonists, Oneida, and Amana. He wrote down their operational details, internal economics, bylaws, and failures. It's one of the best primary sources we have on successful (and unsuccessful) startup societies. We want a video that discusses this book and these communities. What did they have in common, why did some last a century while others collapsed in years, and what can anyone starting new communities today learn from the past? YOUR TASK Make a 59 second (or less) vertical video with a 9:16 aspect ratio on this book. Assume your viewer has absolutely no context and is starting cold. Feel free to use AI, but please don't make it look or sound like AI slop :) We'll give $512 for first place and $128 each for up to four runners-up, subject to whether there are enough good submissions. Winners are paid in USDC to their public Farcaster wallet addresses by default. To enter, reply to this post with your vertical video. This prize runs for three days exactly from this post's timestamp, after which we'll take a little time to review entries and make awards. Please note: we can't give detailed feedback to each submission today as there are often too many, but we'll try to automate this. However, we'll look at every quality entry. For background, go read the book here[1]. Use AI to learn about it too. Then reply to this post with your video. The best will earn a prize! [1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4FKHLKY

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? * Purple DAO voted to end, @chriscocreated & @arjantupan are combining to create one last commemorative artwork: https://farcaster.xyz/chriscocreated/0x78224394 | https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0x9ccde73b QCs working funny| * 'Learn & Earn' Farcaster has a new offering to create a video: https://farcaster.xyz/farcaster/0x287c8ebe * Clanker turned 2! and now @toadyhawk.eth gets to work his magic: https://farcaster.xyz/toadyhawk.eth/0xfb9719f6 (icymi) * I've been seeing more BaseFriend stuff, but barely know what it is--I've seen tipping is coming and you own keys & @arsalang.eth is the builder--but this kind of thing is cool... @krtashin.eth created a guide: https://farcaster.xyz/krtashin.eth/0x6dab7c4e * Dan took the opportunity to build another client 🤷‍♂️ https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0xff26fefe * /gmfarcaster is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:30 AM EST; join @adrienne & @nounishprof & a special cybersecurity guest. Looks like their only show of the week, so don't miss it. 💜

Introducing Fatline An open source native Mac client for Farcaster https://fatline.tech

$1024 IN PRIZES FOR VIDEOS ON TIEBOUT SORTING New Farcaster prize just dropped! We have a series of new prizes teed up on important ideas you should be familiar with; think of this as an interactive book club. First big idea: Tiebout sorting. Everyone in crypto should know the work of Charles Tiebout. In 1956, he published a short paper called "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures" that provided mathematical rigor behind the idea of voting with your feet. His core idea was that *if* there were many small jurisdictions, each offering a different bundle of fees and services, then residents would move to the one that fits them best. Under certain assumptions, competition between places would then do for public goods what markets do for private goods. And now the Internet is making all of Tiebout's assumptions — high mobility, excellent search engines, many communities, digital subscription-based services, and so on — come true. However, while academics do cite the idea of Tiebout sorting, the work is not as well known as it should be among the general public. Perhaps you can fix that. YOUR TASK Make a 59 second (or less) vertical video with a 9:16 aspect ratio on Tiebout sorting. Assume your viewer has absolutely no context and is starting cold. Talk to them in concrete terms anyone can understand to explain the idea of Tiebout sorting. Feel free to use AI, but please don't make it look or sound like AI slop :) We'll give $512 for first place and $128 each for up to four runners-up, subject to whether there are enough good submissions. Winners are paid in USDC to their public Farcaster wallet addresses by default. To enter, reply to this post with your vertical video. This prize runs for three days exactly from this post's timestamp. Go read the original paper by Tiebout here[1] and then the various popularizations[2]. Use AI to learn about it too. Then reply to this post with your video. The best will earn a prize! [1]: https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/PLSC541_Fall08/tiebout_1956.pdf [2]: https://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/LGrant/ref_cards_full/Topic_referenceSheet_tiebout_sorting.pdf

We have been building this poker client for months. Tons of hours have gone into design, functionality and security. Today was the very first game played. And it went exactly how you'd expect it. There were problems. There was confusion. But there was also fun. And critiques. And advice. And real time fixes. This is how the Lobby builds. With its community and with feedback. Thank you to everyone who helped with this experience. We literally could not do this without you 🫡

Created a POIDH bounty for people who watch @gmfarcaster this week and want to share something they learned or found interesting https://poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1542

gm stumbled upon some early poidh lore the very first poidh bounty to mention GM Farcaster back in December 2023 bounty to get a screenshot from @jacek's appearance https://classic.poidh.xyz/bounties/295

Curate right in the center I blame @warpee.eth My most-used words on Farcaster · Last 30 days. Check yours! faralytics - created by @nikolaii.eth with @viniapp

this could have been @farcon mumbai

If Farcaster is dead why was I not able to purchase one of these candles before they sold out? I need answers. I need candles.

I just want everyone to be free

client

LORE: The Farcaster client at one point was going to be called Fatline https://www.gmfarcaster.com/episodes/ep231

Shredded Wheat Bread! The fourth in a series of old-fashioned recipes I found in my Mum's recipe tin. 🥰 If you've ever had "brown bread" in the North American sense, this is that. Mother was bang on with using a cup of molasses, the flavour is incredible. It's sweet but still has the texture of homemade bread. It's tasty on its own with a bit of butter or it could be used in sandwiches that pair well with sweet, like ham or chicken salad with cranberry mayo. I'll be testing a ham sandwich this week. 😋 It baked 43 minutes at 350 degrees F. And it took about 2 hours for the second rise in the pans. It did take most of the day, as bread tends to do but you can do other things while it's raising. Like naps and such. If you try it, the two bake-along audio Spaces can be found in the quoted cast, with part two (the forming of the loaf) in a reply. Please share pics or thoughts, I'd love to know if you like it as much as I do! Just reply here. Enjoy!

hi, i'm downshift! i'm a DJ who's been producing house music for about 8 years. for anyone who'd like to hear my original music.. links to follow. "regenerate" is darker, more minimal tech. "what ya got next?" is more funky + groovy. https://soundcloud.com/beatsbydownshift/regenerate https://soundcloud.com/beatsbydownshift/whatyagotnext

late night building @ethglobal

plus this so yeah it's been a busy one

🚨 New mini app! 🚨 We’re soft launching Collab, an open collaboration tool, where 100% of the community fund goes to contributors. • Co-create: Find something you’re interested in. • Launch community projects: Share an idea and build it with others. • Reward and Tip: Recognize valuable contributions and projects. Anyone with a Neynar score of 0.90+ can create and join collabs. Give it a try and let us know what you think. https://collab.venturetothex.com

One last monument to Purple. 🟪 Purple had a vibe, an energy, and a collective creative momentum that deserves to be marked permanently before the dust settles. @arjantupan and I are setting up an open commission to create a definitive piece commemorating the scenius. The process is transparent: community-funded, community-shortlisted, and curated together. Join the commission pool 👇 cocreated.xyz/miniapp/purple-art

@balajis.eth was a guest speaker during the @ethglobal opening ceremonies. If you missed him on @gmfarcaster this is a good way to catch the main points of what he discussed then in a different format plus a few other topics we didn’t get to. I’m also including our interview below — and you can ask @warpee.eth to drop links to specific moments or ask questions about the GMFC interview. https://youtu.be/lb7i-qEg9VY?t=1993&is=pPf_0JtdEO_s653c https://youtu.be/yaobajMRpck?t=2129&is=RMOiYGZMQ9_RW6fX All the @ethglobal talks from Mumbai can be found in this playlist. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIMAKW1waVQg&si=u_1dK7D23eZg9MDl

listening to our benevolent dictator, @balajis.eth

🟪😢 https://x.com/publicproof/status/2118470496446734725?s=46&t=N80rptBytKhSU-csz4Akrg

🟡 /yellow x the Lobby 🟡 Starting tomorrow YELLOW ART IN THE LOBBY launches 🔥 Every Tuesday and Friday trivia will be art themed and sponsored by yellow. Each month, we will have a 🟡 YELLOW 🟡 leaderboard. 2 winners 2 nouns 1 for noun holders (plus $10) 1 for non noun holders (to build the community) Sign up for LOBBY updates and join the fun! TRIVIA: YELLOW · Impressionism is open on the lobby — $1 across 3 spots. Jump in.

Check out my talk here 👇 https://youtu.be/oDVB_WxraGk?si=kiz0xiOqM1LhQOkA

A) how many FIDs voted yes? 32,965 B) how many voted no? right now we don't make a distinction between a "no" vote and a user who hasn't voted, originally done that way because we thought it was more privacy preserving for "no" voters. I'll see what the devs can find for me (once they wake up). C) how many kicked without a vote? 271 D) of those kicked, how many appealed and got approved? 74 E) how many appeals denied? 20

On May 3, 2024, NounishProf and I were on stage at FarCon Venice with Farcaster founders Dan and Varun, when I had a chance to ask them a question that was personal to me ** "what is the date where the farcaster thesis will be tested where a farcaster celebrity gets deplatformed and has to go build their own client and successfully does that" I always thought of that thesis as a test for whether Farcaster was building something valuable, otherwise it really was just a Twitter clone for a small network of friendly people. Ironically, (and not to say we've reached the goal and everything is perfect) it feels like we've never been closer to seeing this thesis actually tested. The share of alt client usage has never been higher. It's sad to see a community fractured, but I'm glad people have choice and can vote with their feet (figuratively speaking, I guess we're voting with our fingertips and eyeballs since we're clicking and giving attention) ** if you want to jump to this part of the discussion, click to view the transcript, search for the word 'thesis' on the page, and then click the timestamp and the podcast will start playing from that moment https://www.gmfarcaster.com/episodes/ep100

cross posting is so easy when using @kiteapp ,it auto tags their twitter username and auto adds links(except photos & videos) without connecting your twitter account

Day 2 at Devcon 8 met farcaster's @ahn.eth @nikolaii.eth @darrylyeo & @chaskin.eth spent most of the time with @ahn.eth I blanked out when meeting @chaskin.eth met with others farcaster's yesterday too

gm & HAPPY BERTday to all who celebrate 🎉 🥳 🎈 🐾 @bertwurst.eth is 2!

Kismet Art Exhibition

Clanker: Reboot. 2 years ago (almost to the day), Clanker was born right here on the purple app (are we still the purple app?) The idea was simple: Make it possible for anyone to launch a token just by posting on the timeline and tagging @clanker The timing was right, and it caught on like wildfire. Suddenly, even people who never thought they’d launch a token were trying it out in the feed. (I even clanked my first meme token on day 1 to see how it all worked. If you search hard, you can probably find it.) Over the ensuing year, Clanker went on a genny run, expanding from Fc to the X feed and becoming the highest volume launchpad on @base.base.eth by far, birthing some of the most iconic tokens & token communities of that era, including BNKR, DRB, FAIR & more. So many builders on Farcaster & beyond turned to Clanker to bootstrap their ideas & find their first 1,000 true fans. Legends like @jake, @atown, @tomu and @darkohh clanked tokens for their projects. Some, like @mleejr, even took it upon themselves to clank tokens for OTHER people’s projects. And when @netnose and I decided to build a better gacha app for creator discovery, we clanked our native token on day one too. There’s just always been something fundamentally OP about clanking tokens right in the feed. Social graph integration remains undefeated in the attention economy. But despite all this pedigree & lore, Clanker has had… a rough time lately, to say the least. Between early founder drama, the sale to Farcaster and the eventual handoff to Neynar, Clanker’s been like a teenager who hasn’t been allowed to finish a full year at the same school. How can you even make friends like that? Hopefully, that all changes today. Clanker is in good hands now with @masknetwork (stewards of Firefly and Lens Protocol), and they’ve partnered with one of the best engineering teams in the space to give Clanker a much-needed Reboot. More on that soon, but in the meantime… I’m excited to announce that I’ve accepted the role of Clanker CEO and will be taking on the challenge of guiding our beloved tokenbot back to its former glory. Transparently, this wasn’t a decision I took lightly. I’ve been self-employed since I was 17, and always preferred to work on things I founded myself. But Clanker has held a very special place in my heart since day 1, and I feel like the little guy’s been a victim of circumstance for much of the past 18 months. He deserves a second chance at romance, and I’m honored to be the one to lead the charge. I’m also grateful to everyone who helped make Clanker what it is today. To Proxy and Jack for the founder energy, to Base and Farcaster for backing the ecosystem, to communities like DRB and Bankr for keeping it alive, and to @nounishprof & @adrienne for their stewardship too. The fact that this little tokenbot has survived all these seasons is crazy in its own right. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Much more to come from me soon, but here are my main priorities to start: - Reboot and refresh the Clanker brand without losing its special je ne sais quoi. - Work with our socials guru @stanisloou.base.eth to keep comms fresh and clean. - Work with our engineering team to bring clanker features up to parity with modern launchpads (stock pairs, new chains and even day one support for _______) - Rebuild the trust that has been lost with both builders & trenchers through all these transitions. - Show up for OG communities who are still here building and shipping two years later. - Bring new launch energy back to Clanker & back to the feed, where distribution is built-in by default. So if you’re looking to launch a funny meme, a clever stock pair, or an app coin to bootstrap your project, I want to help you succeed. Same goes if you’re a builder with an idea to build on top of clanker protocol; the energy here has always been collaborative and that won’t change. My DMs are open and we can win together. Let’s press REBOOT and run it back turbo. Clank! Clank!

Welcome home to Base

can't decide yet if mumbai traffic is pvp or pve