father, husband, css booster, ux engineer, silently defining variables at /sdv

70% replying to people in meaningful ways.

30% casting to smaller channels.

100% being yourself and casting like someone you want to connect with. If you cast like a bot, you’ll attract bots, etc.

* I've been here since 2022 and built up very slowly, was fortunate to snowball followers once the floodgates opened.

father, husband, css booster, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

Web3 degen and solidity dev.
/seedcaster, /powerbadgecabal




Thankfully a lot of the core community who established those norms stuck around and it’s not all gone with the huge influx of newcomers from older platforms.

The tone on farcaster is much better than other socials. It's noticeable and quite refreshing

Indeed. Things move faster once you acquire a power user badge and get the subtle algorithm buffs.

also being consistent in posting I feel is always a good way to get more followers

Special girl, real good girl. Random things in my itty bitty mom world. 

The nice thing about replies is they start a very direct connection with a person, even if they don’t respond back at first.

Given time I think effortful replies are hard to go unnoticed; whereas low effort replies may get blended in with bot-like accounts.

This is so helpful. It can get discouraging casting to no one. Just trying to find my people! But I do still crack myself up, so it's not a complete loss haha

A mom. A crypto enthusiast. An art lover. A runner.

5 dollars is nothing compared to how +EV the Farcaster ecosystem has been, and thus profitable to bot.

The infrastructure is great for communities to find a new place to settle into.

But the explosive growth of $degen is what attracted hoards of people, of which tipping and other aspects have monetized participation.

Is it really many bots here? How come? I mean, I have to pay 5 bucks for it, thinking there will be more real users and I don’t mind paying as I am looking to engage in more meaningful way.

IRL: Creative Director who makes movies and ads.

Definitely some unlearning to do. It doesn’t help that a lot of the language is indeed botted and because it seems so common, people pick it up as the social norm.

I guess the problem for many people from the crypto world is that they got used to idiotic ways of interacting with others (LFG and other conundrums). So it´s probably hard for some to write messages that mean something a bit meaningful

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

I truly appreciate the kind words.

You're an honorary steve in my book 🤝

this made me happy to read. you’re one of my favorite people here, and ^^ is exactly why. you’re just you and it’s thoughtful and funny and fun — even considered changing my name to steve to join the steves.

10000 $degen

When it was once invite only it was come for this cool thing that people are building, stay for the cool people.

Now it’s come for the $degen, stay for the people.

Thankfully it’s scaling quite well so far!

Recently joined and it’s refreshing to see how positive, respectful, and generally good the vibe is here.

Damn is that why I have so many bot followers??

Genuinely connecting to your people > “building an audience” of low effort replyoors to low effort engagement farming

yeah i've just been myself the entire time. 

worked out.

👍🏼.. We got enough bots being built already… 

The scary reality is the people adopting the mindset of them (bots) already but it’s not too late

Take the time to be genuine and don’t immediately act on emotions.. you have options..

sounds like either way you put the work in 

thats really all i comes down too with anything in life innit?

Especially casting to smaller channels I find important. We need more channels, and sub-channels, and UX to easily navigate them. 

I love my 5 follower channels ☺️