Farcaster Devs

Building @warpcast and @farcaster, new dad, like making food

old school Webpack + Express + React would be great!

React Native

Warpcast

These past couple of weeks I've been focused on making the Warpcast app feel faster.

There is still more room for improvement but I'm happy to say that we've been able to move the needle.

We did this by:
- parallelizing more requests in the background
- tweaking when we issue certain requests
- lazy loading data into lists
- lazy loading large resources such as videos

We can already see improvements in some charts that haven't been easy to move before.

I'm particularly happy that my Android feed loads much better as seen in the before and after videos in the replies.

Please let me know if you see improvements and especially if you encounter any issues.

good perf in React Native doesn’t come for free. this is cool work!!

privacy

what if all privacy-related channels were organized into a single community? 👀

sports

exploring what a tree structure of channels might look like under /sports 🏈

Ethereum

what if there was a single place to see all Ethereum-related channels? 👀

yeahhhh that's where the tree model has its limits

I've thought about a multi-parent model, but it's messy to visualize

Electronic Music

workshopping what a nested layout of music channels would look like 👀

thinking a structure like this would make it easier to discover genre-specific channels

FarCon NYC

Strong social presence 🧊🧊🧊
Founding Ops @icebreaker + /farcon-nyc

Too much attention on cryptocurrency 

Not enough attention on cryptography

cryptoleft

encrypted messaging for farcaster communities / https://comm.app/download

Devil’s advocate in crypto. Previously @rainbow. Global head of Macro at West Ham Capital. Provisional dictator /cryptoleft

untz untz

/new-york by day 🗽 /latenightcrew by night :) Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮 oh and /untzuntz 😈

I was there! enjoyed it but was a bit hardstyle-y for me personally

Comm

web3 citizen and Open Source Software enjoyer

lol I think Warpcast is cropping based on the aspect ratio

founder of @comm.eth
open source / build in public

Loving this so far. Dreaming of my ideal UI for sharing back into Comm from the comments:

in his very last model run, Nate Silver gave Kamala an extremely slight lead (50.015% lol), for the first time in like a month

in his very last model run, Nate Silver gave Kamala an extremely slight lead (50.015% lol), for the first time in like a month

https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model

Chasing Curiosity. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Fullstack Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7. 
icbk.me/tayyab.fc

cc @tayyab, we were talking about this at the last Farcaster Friday

PS yes I recognize stablecoins exist, but I don’t see them as currencies on their own… they are assets for transacting in a currency (such as USD), but the currency itself is controlled by somebody else in a centralized way

Though well-written and inspirational, I believe this post fundamentally misunderstands Ethereum and blockchains. 

Ethereum's distinctive property is objective, strict global consensus, and absolutely nothing else. It's great for usecases that require strict global consensus, but it's impossible for everything else, because Ethereum cannot parse any subjectivity or rough consensus at all. 

As such, while money, contracts, governance, identity, law are presented as examples, Ethereum can only parse very, very limited forms of the above, where it's objective. In some cases, like governance or law, it's almost entirely subjective with negligible scope for Ethereum to help. 

99.99% of economics, institutions and the like are deeply human and subjective, which Ethereum or blockchains in general cannot interpret at all. Indeed, we've seen many a times how forcing subjectivity into objective code has led to many disastrous outcomes in crypto.

(Contd...)

very well said. esp appreciate the “99.99% of economics” part

my hottest take here is that cryptocurrency will never be a good currency (à la USD) because maintaining an inflation target is inherently subjective

1. determining the CPI requires picking a basket of goods. every couple years the BLS adds (or removes) goods… eg. at some recent point cell phones were added

2. picking an inflation target requires balancing stable prices against low unemployment. these goals are often at odds and picking between them is a political decision

instead of framing cryptocurrency as currency, I prefer to think about blockchain as an engine for decentralized consensus

the money part is necessary to incentivize consensus. the point isn’t to introduce a new currency or replace central banks… it’s all about decentralized (objective, strict) consensus

currently: launching @alfafrens v2 | from: /kauai love to: /adventure | previously @overpricedjpegs

ah sorry, this is confusing. the chat app is perma-enabled... the checkmark is supposed to indicate that, but I can see that it's unclear

Founders

aaaaand we're back to having more GitHub stars.

we always knew retention was gonna be *the* challenge after Comm's launch

one of the building blocks we get with Farcaster is the potential for reengagement. we're now looking at ways to bring the user back into Comm from Farcaster, such as a chatroom mini app

curious for insights from other teams that have tried to tackle retention via reengagement

today we're launching the first in a series of experiments to bridge between Comm and Farcaster: the Comm thread bot 🧵

how it works: when you tag @comm.eth in a cast with the string “#createathread”, the bot will respond with a link to a new chat thread on Comm

we believe that chat and feeds are complementary surfaces, and hope that Comm threads can provide a low-stakes place for realtime chat about conversations happening on Farcaster

posted a couple weeks back about using Farcaster to reengage churned users

just launched our first reengagement experiment: https://warpcast.com/ashoat.eth/0x48f30c13

our ultimate goal here is something much more visually interesting (maybe a chatroom mini-app or frame?) but wanted to get an initial experiment out ASAP

curious for feedback from other founders, especially anybody who has had success addressing retention issues with reengagement via Farcaster feeds

Ashoat

@ashoat.eth