The main event of Farcaster this week definitely seems to be farcon, but I do think it’s worth noting another milestone moment: a major global news breaking on Warpcast. 

I first found out about the Iberian blackout on here, thanks to casters in
Spain alerting me to the news. 

I wound up monitoring a lot of the heated debate that followed over the cause on X. But those early casts gave me a glimpse of how this could develop as a platform for real news.

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What would help it do this better/more (besides the obvious of "more users")?

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More of a particular kind of user — news gatherers and news makers. A big moment for Bluesky, for example, was when AOC broke some news on there that she shared first on the platform rather than X. It forced people to go there and made it relevant.