ted (not lasso)

no one (literally no one): me: if @pinetree or @zora or pump.fun got me NEO The Home Robot, i would livestream with it

fwiw, couldn't agree more with dan. sad, but true. 1. i spent most of last year experimenting with URL to IRL and social connection; it doesn't scale OR you need an entire product team focused on it (think 222, rodeo, timeleft, partiful or luma, etc.) and even then it is still a HUGE risk with slow growth. 2. farcaster is mostly crypto users and has crypto primitives (wallet, coins), but the average person doesn't want to hang out on a crypto social network so >half the existing content and exciting features don't make sense to them. this impacts user acquisition and drives churn. 3. rewarding content with $$ is simply not sufficient to attract new users and have them retain at scale; this was immediately obvious after onboarding the journalists or college students and experimenting with the creator rewards. increasing rewards, improving video UX, etc. was never going to change that. 4. my creator/user onboarding was hand-to-hand combat and the common denominator across the most successful onboarded users was the effort or attention dan, linda or i gave to the relationship; again, not scaleable. leaning into the wallet and tokens is the single greatest decision farcaster has made (outside of its permissionless primitives) to support growth and i fully endorse it, even if it isn't the vision i initially signed up for. in fact, i wish the decision to let go of creators / content / connection and instead lean into crypto happened sooner.

lol

it looks like a squatty potty to me but congrats!!! love whenever something gets a fresh look!

nikita in @dwr mode

yoooo i actually personally do NOT want people knowing what i buy let me choose to make this private or public like venmo come on otherwise doing my large volume trades in other wallets

if you're asking "why do we need another chain?" (some of you) then i implore you to read @liam.eth's post on why he joined Tempo and see if it changes your perspective. sharing a snippet but the full read is 100% worthwhile: https://liamhorne.com/tempo also worth reading: x.com/zcabrams/status/1963640969183859116

PSA !!!!!!!

U.S. Open fits feat labubu and big Pickle propaganda (bold move cotton)

$YZY 🤔🧐🤨

good morning, it is 10:28am on Friday, August 15th, 2025 and it is a balmy 81 degrees with 49% humidity and a light breeze of 7 mph in the great city of Manhattan and i didn't get a single whiff of trash on my walk this morning going to be an incredible day

yes! this! if you study sports betting pre-2018, the UX was optimized for insiders (math-heavy, weird acronyms, no standardization) post-2018, the UX shifted to serve *everyone* which helped supercharge adoption (in addition to legalization) esp for younger, mobile-first users same could happen with onchain content

personal update: made the tough decision to leave farcaster. grateful to work alongside such a bar-raising team on what i believe is mission critical for the future — decentralized social. forever a fan! can't wait to roll up my sleeves and dig into what's next. but first, a week to soak up the sun. more soon :)

and the best pop culture vibecoded app of the year goes to... @jmann.eth for Coldplay Canoodler!!! (i can't stop laughing) https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1946248955576066339

learning that people are tipping each other then one slides into DMs with the “thank you” then the flirting starts slowly at first then they turn the dial uppp lfg no one ever slid into my DMs but im happy for you all

was wondering why i didn't see anything about mountainhead on the timeline here, but a quick search reveals: 1. farcasters did, in fact, cast about it 2. and it seems like most people had high expectations that weren't met 3. but i still can't decide whether it is worth the watch or not anybody else watch it?

overwhelming feedback from new users is that the content on farcaster is often too farcaster-centric. sharing a few topics i would love to read more on farcaster (and please lmk if any of these are in your wheelhouse bc i would love to help amplify!): 1. popular culture! trend analyses and insights on culture (and not crypto culture). tell us what do gen z and gen alpha (and sure, millennial) consumers care about. i know "men in tech" may not care about this, but plenty of women *do* and there's a lot of us here! 2. start ups! tell us which startups are hitting milestones, getting funding, growing exponentially — and tell us whether you think they are worthwhile businesses or not. 3. data-centric information about technology, the economy, psychology, and everyday life. i love seeing data visualizations behind things that we know and love. 4. more SCIENCE! tell us how pigs could solve the organ donor crisis or why sunshine is good for the immune system. anything! what do you want to read more of here?

go @linda and @dgabeau !!!

one of my only requests to farcaster as more users join and reactive: building from zero on any platform is hard, and can feel extra hard when it seems there's already a strong in-group (as it seems here). if someone (re)joins and says it is hard to grow here or that engagement is tough, i encourage you find truth in it before getting defensive or snarky. the latter isn't going to keep anyone around, but the former might. i would love to see farcaster lean in and embrace new and reactivated users by: 1. replying to new users as much as you expect them to reply to you 2. sharing what's worked for you or others if you see someone share their struggles (and acknowledging it does take time and effort) 3. make someone feel heard, not unwelcome or inadequate if we want farcaster to grow, let’s be the reason someone sticks around and not the reason they leave. shout out to @keccers.eth, @matthewb, @bradq, @afrochicks, @garrett (+ many more!) who are really good at engaging with all users!!

first, every man made a blog then, every man made twitter threads next, every man made a podcast and now, every man will make a walk and talk video

strong opinion, somewhat strongly held: creatives don't want to create for "content traders" the word "trader" is inherently transactional — someone primarily seeking profit, optimizing for price movement without emotional or philosophical attachment to the asset itself idk a single creative who seeks that out

tons of users have been reaching out to me re: spam labels. when i look at their content, these are the 5 most common pieces of feedback i give: 1. don’t only post mini-apps. think of warpcast as early facebook: if someone only posted dolphin olympics screenshots every day, people would tune them out. 2. avoid overly generic content. casting "gm" or inspirational quotes is fine occasionally, but if your feed feels interchangeable with anyone else’s, it’s hard for people to connect with you. 3. don't use AI thoughtlessly. people notice when casts or replies feel like ChatGPT wrote them. it’s fine to use AI, just add real thoughts or emotions. authenticity wins here. 4. don’t repost stolen photos / art from the internet. farcaster values original content or curation that reflects your taste — not just what’s trending on pinterest, reddit, or X. 5. quality > quantity. you don’t need to cast 10x a day or reply to everyone everywhere. take time to cast things you would stop scrolling to read.

super excited about the green new user halo — an easy signal for us to know who is brand new to the farcaster community and make them feel at home. if you see a green halo, say hi! especially on mondays in the /welcome channel, where we’ll do a weekly intro thread for all new users. gg @woj @blockheim @gt

what happens if i cast $LIBRA ca: Bo9jh3wsmcC2AjakLWzNmKJ3SgtZmXEcSaW7L2FAvUsU is this real

gonna dogfood warpcast video experience so @woj and i will be dropping a week 1 recap vid reply with any questions you want us to answer, anything you want to see, etc. ideally before 5pm PT see you on the timeline soon 🫡

i love everything about yapster the only thing i’d change is the unshakeable feeling of walking into a room full of horny 4chan guys

yoooo @jessyjeanne, @afrochicks and @swampnet started a warpcast rewards train on twitter. love to see the girls winning. choo choo mf. ps add your own screenshots :) https://x.com/swampnet/status/1889378691756523715?s=46&t=rxAVkMPnT_8alZYrwLqp6g

😮‍💨 40 submissions to @kiwi's Future of Farcaster writing contest (!!). shout out to @macbudkowski and @timdaub.eth for putting this together, can't wait to read them all. check it out at news.kiwistand.com.

always shoot your shot a year ago i shipped (with some help from @greg) and FID-gated frame everybody saw “oops you can’t see this” except for @dwr.eth* who saw my pitch to work together *and @cassie and @gregan who figured out my embarrassingly obvious naming convention for each slide and alerted me ASAP lol

life update: i’m joining merkle! absolute dream come true to work with a team and help grow a community that’s meant so much to me for so long. i couldn’t be more excited for what’s ahead. just getting started :)

you guys. The MET (yes like *the* MET) just launched a suuuuper sleek art-connections game at https://artlinks.metmuseum.org/. and guess what it's powered by @base.base.eth and @privy!!! like WHAT this is so cool!

Moonshot reports 200k+ new users last night Kraken just announced $TRUMP listing, available now Legal doc circulating on X claiming $USA launching on 1/24 Non-crypto groupchats asking me if it is a scam and why to buy it

from the palisades. stay safe, praying for everyone nearby and all the firefighters protecting LA 💔

valuable read. gg @chaskin.eth. ultimately reframes the EF's perceived inaction as strategic patience in face of regulatory hostility and makes a compelling case for why Solana vs ETH seized the memecoin opp.

sometimes i’m like yes let’s be more like crypto twitter and then i remember wow this is still what the world thinks of crypto

that’s a pretty surface level take. the most followed / promoted people on FC are the ones who were earliest. the majority of them are startup founders or builders, with full-time jobs or teams or families. CT meta and memecoins require a ton of attention. to be good at it. you have to be locked in to it. but most of the large, early accounts on FC are busy building their own companies or families; they don’t have time to get in the weeds on the CT meta. the best CT accounts are self-employed where the meta is a deep part of their job. it’s insanely impressive. i wish i could do it. both are locked in, but on different things.

genuine question: why? why “honor” me this way compared to any other way?

there may be a tons of people flocking to farcaster, experimenting with products, and sharing thoughts on their experience — some positive, some negative. take their thoughts as feedback, not dunks, especially if they took the time to try what you built. assume they’re builders, not grifters, especially if they too have shipped widely used products. not all feedback is equally valuable and not everyone can be early, but i encourage everyone here to find a bit of truth in good faith criticism when it’s surfaced. @dwr.eth, @v, @jesse.base.eth, proxystudio.eth, and @slokh are masterful at this. create, don’t burn, bridges. and if it’s a bad faith criticism, then it doesn’t deserve your energy.

big BIG shout out to the dream team of volunteers couldn’t have asked for friendlier faces (from all over the world!!) to help share farcaster at devcon impossible if not for them: @unun (new hero), @samuellhuber.eth, @takisuteki, @emr.eth, @anatcrypto.eth, @rafi, @robin, @linda, @harris-, @marissaposner 💜

here’s my synthesis on the warpcast onboarding experience, inspired by @linda easy to get stuck in this bubble, but humbling and motivating to spend two days onboarding 200+ new users and talking to 600+ existing users directly https://x.com/tednotlasso/status/1857049321302032768?s=46&t=rxAVkMPnT_8alZYrwLqp6g

if you’re at devcon, come say hi at the impact space and get a polaroid taken!!! if you’re not at devcon, follow @horsefacts.eth and me to say hi to new users (like @jort-user.eth!) and returning users (like @afl) onboarding right here 💜

hello from bangkok! come say hi at: - @mbd’s web3 social x AI event tn - devcon impact space tomorrow and weds with @horsefacts.eth @samuellhuber.eth @linda and more - @limone.eth’s FC meetup weds night - @base.base.eth BuildHer brunch with @aneri.base.eth thurs AM - /ethglobal fri - sun

welcome to /guiltypop, a place to indulge in our guilty pleasure of pop culture and celebrity gossip. current things that are living rent-free in my head: - OG lifestyle influencer Aspyn Ovard's TikTok tear - predictions on who will be People's Sexiest Man of the Year oh and RIP Liam Payne so sad

who here is interested in: 1. health tech (like @keccers.eth or neurode) 2. celebrity gossip / pop culture (guilty pleasure) 3. interior design / architectural digest 4. social sciences (a la rob henderson) and like i mean these in their actual sense, not the intersection of 1 - 5 and crypto

i am pulling a @keccers.eth and today i can feel the dangerous dark downward doomerism spiral start to take hold of me please help me stop this blackpill moment please share something that makes you excited about the future please please please

following the $525M Praxis announcement and our own journey helping build IRL<>URL communities and meaningful experiences that leverage our digital future (farcaster, crypto, blockchain, etc), i feel there is no better time to share our next phase of making this future a reality: my pre-seed of exactly $0.00.

gonna live cast reactions in this thread (thanks @giu for channel add!) ps every time I wanna be annoyed at tesla for starting late, I remember Kanye made us wait 2 hours on a livestream for his album release 🫠

uh oh, the ChatGPT replyguys are infiltrating tiktok (and every other social platform that exists) so what’s their incentive to do this tiktok???

when's the last time you made a major lifestyle change (diet, sleep, etc) and were 100% happy with it and adjusted after 2 days? my guess is never. the new channel setup is a huge infrastructure change and <48 hrs old. allow it to settle. its new for all of us: merkle, users, mods. we'll figure it out together.