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Farcaster

tldr

Welcome to /farcaster: Your 101 Quick Start Guide!
Below I present to you a quick /tldr thread. 🧵

Let's get started! 

- Casts: Simple text messages, like twitter's Tweets, but with an entire different backend.

channels

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- Warpcast: A good twitter like farcaster client, but not the only farcaster client, there are other examples like farcord and supercast which provide you different flavors of the app.

- Channels: Instead of #hashtags we have /channels, anyone can create channels and become its moderator, being able to pin posts

frames

- Frames: /frames are embedded applications in farcaster, so anything from slideshows to polls, prediction markets to nft minting. Be careful though, always DYOR before clicking a link.

- @dwr.eth is one of the devs working on farcaster, he posts also useful materials and updates all the time.

- Storage and Ratelimits: Heavy users of the app with find a cap in their number of interactions. 5000 casts and 2500 followsfor example. You can also increase the storage at 5$ per year. You can read more about it here https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/98

- Nerfs: Did you notice there arent that many bots around spamming you?  Similar to temporary bans, abusive accounts will be nerfed for 3 days on all warpcast clients. 

you can learn more about nerfs here

- Nerfs: Did you notice there arent that many bots around spamming you?  Similar to temporary bans, abusive accounts will be nerfed for 3 days on all warpcast clients. 

you can learn more about nerfs here
https://warpcast.notion.site/Nerfs-3226885de1554031b2902ac2d3f9b15c

- WARP: These are like magic internet points, the can be used for tipping, creating channels, and paying for some clients

- Hubs: Farcaster runs on nodes called hubs, that's where your information is stored. Anyone can run their own hub locally.