farcasterunion

Still wondering why casts, and reactions, are lowering.
- Is this because of fewer accounts harvesting token drops like degen?
- is this the effect of showing the spam label?
- a combination of these things or something else?

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It's weird that the drops are this heavy. As if botnets have shutdown because there is no more money to earn?

Degen farming wasn't really depending on cast engagement, Moxie was. What about Ham? Can you link the drops to certain events?

DEGEN tipping slashed to 1/5
HAM shutdown
Moxie engagement airdrop stopped
...

hamst.art $hamster /hamster 
martinvr.eth 
deploy.degen.eth

Somehow I have the feeling that it's two(?) harvesters/spammers who threw in the towel, and that it's a combination of: better results in labeling spam by Farcaster; indeed less opportunities to make money and a worse price appreciation due to market conditions.

Dec. 31 was the proposal of V to publish the spam label, but they where available later on. Not sure in with date. Farcaster isn't searchable very well.

Data

I haven't stared at data in a while, but just took a moment to re-anchor my assessment after seeing this cast from last month

https://client.warpcast.com/v2/cast-image?castHash=0xb1bcab69e94f743f76e2b3a2f5095a27953ca849

pumpfun revs 3 March to 8 April: >~1m per day, $48m cumulative

farcaster dau trailing avg (7d):
 3 Mar 43,411 
 8 Apr 41,329

anyone know what happened to the cast+reply volumes (not the trailing DAU numbers, which measure unique FIDs) around the end of March? they appear cliff-like. was it related to the end of CTG, or did that happen a week earlier?

[sources in following cast]

I asked this same question 19d ago (hidden at the bottom of the discussion point).

I hypothesized publically "end of CTG", but the timing doesn't seem right at all. I shared privately around that time, my suspicion that a professional botnet was changing tactics.

As for dates of spam labels updates, you can follow the git commit history

I asked this same question 19d ago (hidden at the bottom of the discussion point).

I hypothesized publically "end of CTG", but the timing doesn't seem right at all. I shared privately around that time, my suspicion that a professional botnet was changing tactics.

As for dates of spam labels updates, you can follow the git commit history

https://warpcast.com/artlu/0x5e5c2466

https://github.com/warpcast/labels/commits/main/