First Draft Club

The Unwritten Rules of Farcaster: Cast A Lot*

When the Warpcast team says: Cast a lot* to be successful and be eligible for airdrops and rewards, that’s a huge oversimplification. 

There’s a BIG asterisk in there that’s invisible, but important understand. You need to cast things that are going to get engagement. Casting for castings sake isn’t going to work out in your favor. 

75-80% of casts on Farcaster get zero engagement. That means no likes, no comments, and no recasts. This is bad.

If your content is getting zero engagement, you need to change your casting habits. These are called orphaned casts and they are bad. The algorithm sees them as not good. When people ignore your content, it must be bad and the algorithm wont favor you in the future. 

You need to cast a lot to do well here but casting things that get engagement is more important. It’s better to not cast at all than to cast slop, aka something that gets no likes and no comments. 


Here’s a Dune dashboard that shows how many cast or orphaned daily. It’s fascinating.

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If your content is getting zero engagement, you need to change your casting habits. These are called orphaned casts and they are bad. The algorithm sees them as not good. When people ignore your content, it must be bad and the algorithm wont favor you in the future. 

You need to cast a lot to do well here but casting things that get engagement is more important. It’s better to not cast at all than to cast slop, aka something that gets no likes and no comments. 


Here’s a Dune dashboard that shows how many cast or orphaned daily. It’s fascinating. 
https://dune.com/pixelhack/farcaster

i haven’t cast in over a month and i bet im still considered spam.