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we are live at gm farcaster it is wednesday 8 3rd and you are here with nana shroff and erica heavyweight for 21 minutes of farcaster news to start your day and if you didn't know warp cast is currently down i don't know if all of farcaster is down i haven't checked super cast that would have been a good idea didn't think of that until just now but we were having a little bit of an issue trying to get on here because i had sent erica the link for example on war cast to join me so then i had to send it to twitter and then i couldn't you know normally we show links during the show and the links aren't loading so it's been an interesting adjustment for the morning oh somebody said supercast and nook currently seem to be good hopefully everyone else sees us here i'm hoping you guys are seeing me okay great it's like please don't unknowingly go down how are you doing this morning besides all this this fun we've just experienced
other than that i'm doing fantastic
it's like i'm great
i have my coffee i'm great i'm having a little water
stress of like making sure that i could actually join this on time i'm doing great this morning
oh it's like i sent you the link on twitter all of a sudden like right before as i'm like scrambling to try and get screenshots of the links that i put you know saved we put them into a discord this is what adrian and i have been doing since the beginning and then i pull them up ready for the show and i go to start pulling them up and they're like they show for a second and then they disappear and i'm like what is going on like no so i started screenshotting them so i do have something for us to talk about
fantastic good
yeah and then that was the same thing that was happening to you right going into direct cast you were just like in there for a second
i just like panicked clicked the link like the first one that i sent in our group chat like as soon as i could like just panic click whatever the first one was so like if you had sent me a new link and like i just panic clicked it no matter what it was
and then all of a sudden i'm like i'm gonna find her on twitter
who's twitter that's the problem i'm a farcaster maxi i like never log in to
i know i was like i don't know why i didn't get your email anyway so we're here we're here and and here we go so let's let's jump into it i feel like i should have started with the meme that i'm gonna show it a little bit which i actually put on the cover and it's like more appropriate than ever but we'll get to that but in the meantime dan work in progress the challenge with scaling quality in channels is in a permissionless way pick 2 and he has said something along these lines before about you have to pick 2 and quality work or permissionless and so algo with high bar or payment auto mod works fine in for small channels permissionless invite only so all these different things that you have to take into consideration when you're thinking about how are we gonna do permissionless all everything really so i thought this was really interesting and then we had this little note from borodouch i'm so out of the loop i have no idea what dwr is trying to show here
so in fact i was part of the origin chat that this came out of so i am very in the loop about this
perfect explain it to us erica so shoots the light
we were chatting about how even with auto mod like a lot of spam still comes through right like you can very easily like hack through the auto mod rules especially since they're static so like if you ban one key keyword even if you're using like rejects patterns like if people notice that's the pattern you're using they'll be able to figure it out and like get through it and a lot of this also came out of my opinion that a lot of the moderating efforts hosts are currently using are unfairly punishing genuine new users so creating channels like with warps like new users yes they onboard with 50 warps if they get an invite otherwise they have to wait you know to be able to join a channel like a lot of the
great point great point i hadn't thought about that aspect of it too
yeah so if if like farcaster is concerned with onboarding new users a lot of the moderation techniques that we've now like added into the experience adds unnecessary friction for new users to onboard so genuine new users aren't able to like extract a lot of value out of the farcaster ecosystem with how moderating is being approached right now so this conversation came out of how can we fix this issue how can we make sure that we're not unfairly punishing genuine new users for this leak of reducing spammy new
users yeah it's tricky it's definitely tricky and i think it's especially when we just saw again highest level of daily active users again so we hit another all time high 77,000 and that just strains everything right especially when you're not going in this nice little easy up trajectory it's like poof so then you don't expect it you don't know what's gonna drive it and then all of a sudden you've got you get slammed and i've seen there's been a number of different things that have been you know breaking under that load and it's just an adjustment time but thank you for that explanation we have perfect perfect time to have you on so any moving on and i normally would just click to the next slide but hey we're gonna scroll today like like i'm in class we're doing amazing actual slides today like what is going on but i did love this from vordutch so thank you for the laugh and then we have keyhubmetric this is from barun key hub metric we are laser focused on improving is sync health what we are laser
focused on improving is sync health we have about 800 to 1000 running hubs at any given time sync health is the percentage of these hubs that are fully caught up with the network our goal is to have 99% sync health and wazee mandelas is leading the effort and the sync health for the last 4 hours this was yesterday sometime was 95.29 so some of that may be we may be seeing some impact from that as well where even if you're seeing something you may not be seeing the most up to date information so yeah so and just a note right now warp cast is still down but nook and super cast are up so speaking of sync there you go so this is this is great and i've been seeing a lot of varun posting different things about hubs and metrics and and the things they're doing to move that forward so any insight on that before
not that one
that one and then related hubs are now up to 14% rust adia pak sanjay and wazimandlas have moved all our hot code paths to rust focuses now on improving sync as mentioned and p2p until we can comfortably support 500 ks dao so right now we're looking at 77 was the new high we hit this weekend dao is daily active users not the other kind of daos that i'm normally talking about but daily active users and it goes on to talk about the different languages typescript rust shell javascript and we're still a lot on typescript and hubble is now 10% raw and 5 times faster that was 27 days ago so we're really moving you can see the comparison of that movement and where they're planning to go with this on the dev side really interesting to see what's happening there in order to support this larger load of folks coming in and the bottom line was why are we seeing a larger load of folks let's talk about that for a second bottom line is it's honestly dgen right now it's dgen it's the attention around dgen it's people realizing that you know there are folks getting paid for being active on a social network and others have tried but you know have have realized that they're not gonna get paid much from elon and so now we're seeing it you know it's good and bad to me it's like it's good and bad i don't know how you feel about this but i'd love to get your take you know i love the fact that you know people come sometimes come for the coin and stay for the community but there's also a different vibe and i'm feeling it right now we're you know we had this moment post frames and post you know first first degen round of this like burst of new people and it got very different and some of it was not great and we're kind of in that mode again where some of it is not great but also you want like you mentioned you wanna bring those genuine new users in you wanna be those those folks who are going to contribute to community this week alone i saw fuck render and claire silva both amazing amazing top level artists jump onto the platform do we want them here absolutely come on in like very excited to see you are there some other folks that i would rather just stay over on twitter absolutely
like say away go away and i think you know i saw that there was like a twitter space with hundreds of people in it they're talking about farcasters so there's a lot of like movement over and some of that is very new builders who are amazing and artists who we really want you know as part of this community and and others are just they're looking to get paid and it's it's a tough tough thing to balance thoughts
oh thoughts i thought you said but no
no thoughts thoughts
thoughts erica my haven't had enough coffee this morning thoughts many main thought that comes to mind was actually a fantastic cast by ted that she posted last night but unfortunately obviously we can't pull
that up to pull that up but i can't
not possible but she posted in teddit her channel like you know kind of a discuss like the the tipping behavior or the potential like for lack of a better word hypocrisy of how we approach like tipping culture in restaurants and stuff and then like degen tipping and i think what she was trying to actually highlight through asking this question which is a very leading question is our degen tips are not our money like our balance is not being deducted like we are not taking $5 or $1 from our own wallet and like giving it to someone else someone is giving us money to then distribute
right
so that just drastically changes the tipping behavior that faucet is going to run out you know like that is not going to be forever and so my thoughts are a little bit mixed on this because right now yeah it's gonna be a lot of attention and it's gonna be a lot of noise and it's gonna be hard to find that sense of camaraderie and like close community within farcaster with this activity but also at the same time i know it's going to end at some point and stabilize to a more sustainable like level of activity unless another meme coin pops up and does the same thing you know
and and we did see that this week we saw it within joy but that's specifically for minting you know minting behavior and very specific to zuora so a little different but similar like really similar to what you're talking about and along those lines too i'm just trying to find the right cast usually i can just click on on little tabs and i can move around now i have to scroll through slides kagusha had something similar here that is along those same lines about calling for self awareness with tipping contests reminder you don't have to run a contest to support artists too many contests dilute the impact of unique content if you're running a contest consider ways to make it valuable ask a thoughtful question reward the best answers give specific topics etcetera i think this is really good advice and i did have an artist actually reach out to me and say like that she was not comfortable with that or was getting a little frustrated by other artists who were you know basically just going in that direction and encouraging that tipping sort of thing and or i'll tip you if you buy my thing and and so there's a little bit of that it's it's kind of like finding a balance but i literally did this the other day where i said okay i'm gonna give my bull tip to somebody who minced this but it was because i was i got thrown into a pearl contest and i was like my competitive nature went i don't think i can get more than that many likes i never have let me give it a shot and i but i actually made the mint completely free like i paid the gas for it okay so i i did something that like i wasn't i really ended up spending like you know some serious eth there just because i wanted to experiment and see if i could move the needle and it and it worked so then i gave my tip away but and i've seen other good uses of that too it's like if you're you know tipping folks who are creating content creating memes creating art and they're putting that on the timeline and they're not asking for that and you just like what what they're sharing like to me that's the best use of the tip and i do appreciate that yeah so i do see and i do see like for you know the yellow collective has done really well with that too where at times they've incentivized auctions and not necessarily who wins but bidders on the particular you know noun that comes up that day so using the tipping to reward those who are participating and who are contributing i think is a really good way to approach it and speaking of tipping and now i gotta scroll back up i gotta find my i gotta find my my next thing that this is gonna be all over the place man this is all over the place this is like this is like episode 4 instead of like 83 where i used to like not even we weren't even showing anything like we're back to the stone age so there's a new frame where you can see who your top tippers were and i thought this was really cool because i had no idea that some and kagusha were my top tippers i had no idea because i don't normally track who's tipping me and i don't you know i kinda see them when they flash through but i wasn't paying attention so i just wanted to thank everybody for that because that was very kind so some kagusha symbiotic links links hey links vixby jolie hey jolie hey artlu ted i had no idea zamar zarmrad met i don't even know who that is i have to go find out make sure i'm actually following them i have no idea and not devin so mostly it's like people that i knew and i interact with a lot and i often i don't do a lot of you know tip i don't do tip me tip me tip me back or whatever any of that like i just kind of tip randomly most of the time so this was really nice to see and if you you can once war pass is back on you can go find this frame and i'll put the link in the show notes and you can go find this frame and find out who your top tippers are and say and say thanks so so thank you lync i see you in the chat appreciate you so that was really nice to see i liked that use of the frame for sure naynar this is from naynar from rish the database behind i should have done this earlier and i would have had i been able to do my normal normal order here the database behind the sql playground came back online for an hour ago which finally brings back the final missing piece shout out to manan for fighting for firefighting today yes at one point i actually made things worse by trying to fix them i believe 3 hours of sleep i thought that was funny because there's again the load that everything's dealing with right now so nanar is what a lot of the different apps and frames etcetera are built using so that was causing some issues so we're having all kinds of little tech issues everyone go away for a minute would you let them get things back up oh and related to d g see this is so out of order so out of order this is from goose g n me trying to figure out how much d gen i have left to dip today i do that when it when sometimes it doesn't tell you it's not giving you an accurate number and you know it's not accurate you're like okay i know i tipped more than that today what do i have left i don't always try to get to 0 but i try to get close or or i'm like hey i'm gonna give you this tip i don't know if i have anything left but there you go hopefully it's there
yeah i got reduced down to 0 for my tipping because i added a new wallet to farcaster and when i added that new wallet yep like totally revamped everything and i'm like i used to have a lot of tipping ability yep did not have nothing
and where did it go
and that happened with tony hawk same thing he was like all of a sudden he had a ton of tips and then all of a sudden they were gone it's because he had added another wallet to his account by the way that's why my original dgen airdrop is still stuck in a safe same thing
i did get my i'm close
i'm close to getting it out i have one little i i personally do not have the technical ability to do a couple things that i need to do that i figured out i got i got as far as creating the proxy safe so i got that we're we're there but then it was like and now you need to command line interface and i was like i'm out woah i'm out i don't know what that is it was asking me like you need python and you need i'm like i need what now i'm out i'll figure this out later let's get one of our viewers
to help you out later
so yeah i have actually a friend who's gonna who's gonna help me we just have to find time he's in australia
i'm like can you help me with this he's like yeah
i can definitely help you with this i was gonna try and add him to the safe and then i realized i couldn't do i have to do the command line interface but anyway there's nothing in the safe but anyway so back to a few other notes if you're interested in shipping a launch day cast action please reply to this cast so cast actions are coming soon if you have an interest in that please respond to dan he would love to get you involved in that and i think i'm looking forward to seeing what that is all about also from farcon i've been dying to ask you about this this was from ted yesterday slow crypto drumped up some dope swag and we want your help in designing it reply below with your favorite fc native memes slash art the most liked replies by far squad members will get designed in thanks to seneca plus browns plus partydao my votes farcasting dwr superification tim dob and warped and oxen mole i think we need some mole is my personal opinion i mean clearly don't cook again it has to be somewhere involved in here but i love this so what do you have any favorites
i got all of the kiwis funny enough i'm allergic to kiwis but like i love kiwis yeah i only became allergic to them when i was like 24 so i ate them my whole life and then my body was like no
no you're done you're done with kiwis
i'm done with kiwis
you're done with kiwis no more kiwis for you
love the kiwis i gotta say i love the mole i worked as a chef for a few years and just seeing like all of the memes that came out of that was just it it tickled me inside in a very like fun and satisfying way because i know that moment
you're gonna love i did not know you were a chef you you're gonna love when i'm cooking up we gotta talk right after this yeah i got i got some i got some alpha for you right after this show so don't leave when we end don't leave okay
one thing to note about this though is that i just wanna give a huge huge huge shout out to slow crypto ted and i have been working with him for the past like 6 weeks on getting all of these merch ideas out and like cool one of the most talented like just so crazy some of the ideas he came up with i can't wait for everyone to get their hands on this actual so any alpha there will be a tote bag which i love a good tote bag and it's not your classic canvas tote bag it's like a nice okay like yeah i'll say that there's also a really cool hat and i gotta say the other t shirt that we have is it's pretty sick yeah
alright alright i'm excited i'm excited for all the swag i'm excited for far khan what are you looking forward to most i asked ted this yesterday
i am looking forward to like the entire thing like i can't pick a single night i can't pick a single day i think i'm looking forward to the vibe like remember it was such a vibe being around all the farcaster people feeling that energy the excitement of everyone knowing
yes
like with utter confidence that this is the place to be yes that's what i'm excited to feel again
yeah and i think that was you know that was her comment as well was that it's about the people for sure mhmm i agree but i'm also just looking forward to every yeah every moment but of course i'm looking forward to the 100th episode at obviously that was gonna be obviously
if you'd ask me
yeah i cannot wait lastly this and then i have one more quick thing or 2 more quick things but we gotta talk about this unofficial so this first was announced by christopher and then you i'm so pleased to be able to announce i'm starting my official journey as a founder at unofficial with christopher as part of seedclub cohort 7 this is huge news i can't wait to see what we create and am stoked to learn alongside one of the most talented kind and sharp devs i've met here's to the next 3 months so i mentioned this before quickly but i saved this specifically for the chat with you because i wanted you to talk a little bit about what is unofficial tell us a little bit about what seed club is for those who may not know and tell us what you're what you're doing what you're up to you were in paris for a while the last time you were with us you were in paris actually getting ready for this like finalizing and waiting for the official news so mhmm tell us what's going on what's unofficial
so was in paris last time we talked now i'm in new york in person with chris building not even like in my hometown again so if that gives you an idea of what i've been up to that's like what i've been up to is building but yeah so i'll start off with what seed club is seed club is a consumer crypto incubator this is their 7th cohort they started about 3 years ago they do a cohort that lasts for 3 months they do offer investment for equity you you know of course get to speak to them with what fits you the best and how you fit into their ecosystem the best but a lot of it is making sure that the founder journey is not lonely that's like a really really big part of seedclub
it's unlonely is what you're saying
yeah you could say that
but josh and jess are the main partners at seed club i actually worked with josh at hopper 5 years ago so it's really lovely to be able to be back in like the same you know group as him and i'm really really excited for the rest of the cohort like i know this visual doesn't show it but the cohort's pretty much all my farcaster friends
tim and matthew
you know colin and ben ponder and it's just like really really exciting
that's super exciting that's an amazing crew
you know like it's just wonderful that lisa foundation yeah like it's just great and then for unofficial for a very quick summary of what it is is it's a composable social company and we're focused on creating experiences that encourage people to connect with their friends family and communities on chain so we really want to make the internet fun again we don't want the internet to feel like these platforms are just extracting value from you and not necessarily giving you anything of value in return we want to switch over to a more additive value experience for consumers on social networks and social media platforms
amazing i mean i'm so looking forward to seeing everything that comes out of it by the way we were talking about enjoy yesterday that is that came out of c club as well so that has like a relation to c club so it's just amazing i'm super excited to see everything that you're doing with unofficial as well as everything that's gonna come out of c club in the next co in this cohort this is like the farcaster focused cohort and i'm really really excited about it i do have a couple more quick notes since you mentioned new york this friday i believe it is is the fcny number 2 happy hour so friday april 5th 5:30 to 8:30 so if you are a farcaster fan and you're in new york go rsvp to serendipity's frame here and make sure that you are there because actually gm forecasters are one of the sponsors for this and we have a giveaway that's gonna be done there and a bunch of swag i just mailed out so there's cute little pins and stuff oh i don't have them handy i put them in the other room cute little things that i sent over so go grab them and i hope everyone has an amazing time i believe adrian's gonna be back in town so she will be there and then there's another event on saturday as well so lots of farcaster meetups happening so go check those out and i'm really jealous and i'm trying not to pay attention to everything that's happening in new york right now because i'm just gonna be mad that i'm not there so i'm just like ignoring it all because usually i am there and i couldn't be there this time so i'm like i'm just gonna pretend it's not even happening but i hope you have an amazing time i think it's gonna be so much fun and then lastly yeah this is the meme of the day i can't believe how incredibly relevant it was since this is exactly what i had to do this morning was to reach out to erica on twitter and be like hey if you need that link here it is because there you go so a little meme from winter the what is my purpose meme what is my purpose to announce when war cast is down and oh god oh my god yes so announcing when warpcast is down is your purpose and i did a really bad screenshot on that one
like with the image embedding cast like crazy but did my did my best and that is it for us we ran a little bit over but oh what a day but i really wanted to make sure we got some time to talk about c club and unofficial so i wanted to take that little extra time while i had you as a captive audience and parcon both things that you're involved in and i'm super excited to see you in less than a month i know at farcon this is crazy it's coming up so fast and have an amazing time in new york with all the farcaster folks very jealous make sure you'll see adrienne i'm sure on friday at some point and we'll be back i'll be back with adrienne friday morning she'll be back from vacay and we will see you then and with that that is it let me see if i can actually take us out of here like normal and with that bye bye