"Merkle just helps its friends"

How many times do I have to repeat that most users and developers on Farcaster did not know Varun or myself prior to joining Farcaster.

And in some cases have *become* friends because they stuck around early on when no one else cared. We've spent years with this people socializing on this social network. :)

Don't conflate something that's earned / built with cronyism.

i dabble with ai using open data from crypto https://alexpaden.tech

Yes, I made qualitative judgements early on what people were good for the network. In fact, I onboarded close to 10K people individually.

Seems to have been an OK decision so far...

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

Mostly about not letting spammy accounts through. Wasn't perfect, but pretty good at filtering.

Did you actively curate this group? Were people who weren’t invited?

Working on a vouching sustem and trying to learn more abput growing a community.

True. 

The fc beginning was a digital craftsmanship

>good decision so far...

you think? out of what 700k people only 30-50 ever goes to trending (which i assume is the measure of good casters in this network).

yep, you onboarded me by sending me an invitation via a DM on twitter i only had about 100 followers there and i didn't even know you