two things can be true:

1. many farcaster users feel as though a 'FC Cabal' is favored at the client level, and enjoy permanent, outsized benefits from being active, early  

2. its totally possible to join Farcaster and grow an account from 0. I joined on Feb. 5th and my account is in the top 300 users by engagement according to most dashboards I've checked. You have to post & reply consistently, and it really helps to have something to say.

Fun weekend data dive, triggered by @proxystudio.eth.

Data and details are on Github, incl. links to data sources and instructions on how to recreate.

https://warpcast.com/artlu/0x7f4dd5cf

My conclusions:

- one handful of humans with FID > 200k are at Proxy's level of engagement, as measured by OpenRank

- Proxy is at least [X]% a project account, and reasonable ppl can compare their engagement with successful 2024-vintage accounts incl. drakula, paybot

- follower count shows emergent 2024-vintage accounts at the 5k, 10k, 15k range. Continue to shout out notable examples in the original thread, and here!

Inasmuch as OpenRank uses an initial population to seed its weightings, the metric shows that the seed population has not significantly engaged with newer human accounts, although it has chosen to engage with certain newer brand accounts

Join my frens in cacc club.

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PFP is a wingding 

This has been fascinating to watch unfold! I’m learning  so much from this discussion.

Unlonely

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I have this working theory that there is a “Farcaster glass ceiling” because of the way most of the algos work. If the original folks who’ve been here the longest don’t interact with new folks coming online, it’s almost impossible for them to grow. I may be imagining this but it’s a hard group to break into.

me too! :)

I learned a lot from your earlier inputs, and continue to ponder over them. 

Am timeboxing the analysis for now, and will probably milk it for content on our /unlonely stream tomorrow, but remain eager to see other insights emerge.

Most valuable to me are the shoutouts in the original thread