Pichi

@pichi

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The Unwritten Rules of Farcaster (a thread 1/11) 1. Don’t ask for follows—most users ignore or avoid those who do. 2. Engagement matters—treat it as a social network, not just a broadcasting platform. 3. The algorithm prioritizes engagement—interact with content you like to train your feed. 4. Give likes freely to support content you enjoy. 5. Reply thoughtfully—generic responses don’t add value and may be ignored. 6. Tag people with purpose—avoid tagging non-followers without a good reason. 7. Use channels to connect—they’re a safe space for engaging beyond your followers. 8. If you’re being ignored, check your spam label—many won’t see your replies if you’re at Level 0 or 1. 9. Rules are looser with friends—banter freely, but remember relationships take time to build. 10. Farcaster is a unique, close-knit community—engage authentically, be patient, and you’ll find your place.

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Sometimes the universe speaks to you. Are you listening anon? Go eat some protein.

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Having a hard time figuring out how to best share my writing on Farcaster. Looking for feedback, lessons learned, or any experiments that I can try! So far: 1. Joined /firstdraft to hold myself accountable to writing 2. Experimenting with posting final drafts on @paragraph 3. Testing long long casts instead of just threads (struggling with formatting!) 4. Still testing threads 5. Testing QCing long casts with shorter snippets of the article as a new cast, easier to digest? Anyone out there doing their own test? Anyone knocking it out of the park that I can learn from? Always trying to learn and improve!

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Would highly recommend all channel owners to play with these settings. New folks could be stuck in show more replies even if your channel was set to public. This gives even more granular control!

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~ Change up how, when, and where you cast ~ Videos don’t do that great here. Neither do photos or mint frames alone. While we may want to share our content this way, the algorithm doesn’t love it. This is a text based social network and that has to be respected. Add more text around your content and try more experiments with text based casts.

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~ Turn on “Super Follow” (notifications) for your favorite casters or friends you want to see more ~ Sometimes the algorithm doesn’t show you what you want to see and you have to force it. Turn on notifications for a few people for a week and interact with their casts more. This is a good hack to get the algorithm to show them to you more in the future, if it behaves. I’ve had to keep them on for a handful of people who don’t cast often. The algorithm really likes when you cast daily.

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~ Hack the recency bias in the algorithm ~ The algorithm really loves whoever you last interacted with. So if you haven’t seen someone in a while or they haven’t seen you in a while, you’ve got to teach the algorithm what and more importantly WHO you want to see! If you let it decide for you, you won’t see the people you want to see the most. You’ve got to force and train it.

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Does anyone else look at the clock and work backwards to bedtime/awake time to decide what crops to plant? Anyone have a google spreadsheet? Or programmed a ChatGPT agent? Asking for a friend.

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All of this is exciting. Ready to experiment.

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I love when everyone becomes ghosts.

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Happy Tree Thursday!

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I haven’t gotten a new follower notification since FarCon. I’m used to it being broken. Today I got one and got really excited and their bio is: AIRDROP FARMER in all caps. They are a very sus account. So I wilt say this unironically: NOT LIKE THAT

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This is my favorite notification.

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https://farcaster.xyz/push-/0x918da53f

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This is new and cool!

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~ Reply to every thoughtful comment. Ignore low effort replies ~ If you want engagement you have to give it too. You don’t have to be a reply guy if it’s not your thing, but if people are taking the time to engage with your casts, take the time to reply back to authentic thoughtful comments. If someone is in broadcast only mode and never engages back, reevaluate why you are replying to them in the first place. Is their content amazing? Does it make your Farcaster experience better?

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~ Change your Feed Setting to see All Replies for a week ~ Farcaster is now letting you decide how many replies you want to see. I encourage everyone to change this setting to all for at least a week. Many casters have been in the shadows and you can help them be visible again. Some accounts are inundated by AI automated accounts and won’t be able to use this setting, but most people should be able to try this for at least a week. Block automated accounts liberally. Give real casters a chance. You’ll find the settings under “Feeds”

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~ Clean up who you follow ~ You can’t make people follow you or engage with you, but you can save your engagement for those who engage back. If you are being truly thoughtful and authentic and someone never replies to you (and you don’t have a spam label so you know they can see you!) then stop wasting your time and move on. People are busy, notifications are buggy, spam labels are real. But if someone ignores you, move on. Even a like is enough. If they give you zero interaction back, try someone else. Here’s a quick tool to see who is still around. Don’t follow spammy people. Save friends who are mislabeled as spam. https://recaster.org/tool/follow-checker

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I almost missed Water Wednesday. Still Wednesday in half the US.

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I could watch puppies run in slow motion all day.

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