Farcaster

I like running, poker and oysters | Founder, Social Forensics (SocialForensics.com) | Berkeley & UPenn | Learning to listen | Not Ran Domero

Permanently Optimistic™

I should put this on a tshirt and sell it via a frame. The protocol has 641k users who have at least 1 storage unit, yet there are 211k users who have never casted before. How many people talk about that? 

Stats via farcasterinsights.com

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Two separate issues here, gents:

1) DAU being inflated (accounts with zero casts don't impact this!)

2) Followers counts being inflated

My original cast focuses on 1), whereas @ghostlinkz.eth's reply focuses on 2)

FC DAU is overstated by at least 5X; the same doesn't hold true for Twitter, FB, IG, etc.

I like running, poker and oysters | Founder, Social Forensics (SocialForensics.com) | Berkeley & UPenn | Learning to listen

A Day in the DAU (July 1st, 2024) https://warpcast.com/geoffgolberg/0x26441fba

On 1), I have looked at the data.. my statement is grounded in 6+ years of studying the topology of social networks, not assumptions :) https://warpcast.com/geoffgolberg/0xe265996b

Agree with your point re: importance of focusing on shaping the culture of real people here (hence urged @mazmhussain to join!)

Doesn't mean I can't also be critical

re your 1) point, if you assume that most users are lurkers, then protocol DAUs != warpcast DAUs because lurkers don't post.

So I don't disagree that the farmers/bots (and the financial incentives to bring them here) are an issue, but the warpcast DAU number could actually be close to that. We really have no idea.

you guys are free to say what you want of course, but the point I'm much more interested in is how we should shape the culture of real people on here, and how we should try to expand that.

You are right, these are two different things, but I picked accounts that have paid for storage and have made 0 casts because Merkle likes to talk that up as a solution to the Twitter bot problem. Plus, why is no one talking about it at all? Isn't anyone curious about this behaviour. Who pays for storage but then doesn't even say GM? lol