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Hang out with us. Find the $SOCIAL frame in /socialtoken. docs.socialtoken.fyi

Claiming my @socialtoken airdrop and crediting @reiji4kt with my social airdrop for being a great friend

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Founders

teddit

@ted pitching FarCon, Farcaster, and their community at the /network-states conference in Singapore

fc-updates

Upcoming channel changes

We're *previewing* some upcoming changes so people 1) can understand and 2) provide feedback.

These changes are not launching yet. It will be a couple weeks. There will also be a bunch of communication to channel owners. 

After reading the entire doc, feel free to reply to with feedback or send me a DC. I've tried to answer a lot of common questions in the FAQ.

https://warpcast.notion.site/Upcoming-channel-changes-1056a6c0c101800caee6ea8133f8f966

The spam filtering dilemma

Sharing how we think about it so people can better understand:

1. Most people will only use social networks if they are fun

2. Casting something and getting dozens of spammy replies is not fun

3. If you get enough spammy replies, you'll just stop using the app

4. So, aggressively filtering for spam is necessary to keep your existing users happy

5. However, this means some good new users will hit spam filters. Understatement: this is a bad user experience for those people. It would be great to not have this happen.

6. But given the choice of who to make unhappy — an existing user who has invested a ton of time and energy into the network or a new user that is most likely to churn (top tier social networks lose 50% of users!), then you have to optimize for your existing users.

7. So does that mean you don’t care about new users? No! It’s existential to have new users be able to join Farcaster and find people to connect with — without being labeled as spam.

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Memes

hating on the warpcast boost feature and then posting and seeing your casts boosted

Farcaster

We've done over 22,000 onchain account recoveries since the system launched last year. 

These are people who lost seed phrases but because of Farcaster's onchain recovery system they were able to regain control of their FID in an address they control.

https://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/what-is-farcaster/accounts#recovering-an-account

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