Today's AMA - ask me anything you want to know about how Farcaster Hubs work!

Quite a few questions about "is my data encrypted? or "are hubs private""

Casts, like, follows are not encrypted and likely won't ever be. This is a public social network and the expectation is that this data is open to everyone. 

Direct messages are also not encrypted but they will be in the future. This is a private message between people or groups of people and the expectation is that the data is not open.

I gladly share my latest project for the community.
A Figma UI kit for Warpcast.

- 12 Screens
- Variable Components
- To many versions of purple
- And much more..

Get it now in the Figma community for free!
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1417614993094563349/warpcast-ui-kit

Sr. Product/UX Designer for a car company, Happy new dad. Building /starcaster and the Scammer Registry. Created /silly-frames. icbk.me/disky.eth.fc

I’ve spent more time on @warpcast the past 4 weeks than other platforms. Sharing some learnings & observations:

- Find the channels that you are actually interested as opposed to where there are the most people. If you start posting there you’ll have a higher likelihood of engagement because you will be able to contribute more meaningfully to that group and better understand their vibe. TLDR it’s nice to get a response to your casts as opposed to shouting into the abyss. For me that was /dogs /founders /farcasther /parenting 

- Jump in and experiment. Ask questions, read documentation and try to make sense of things being built here. The @moxie.eth community was welcoming and excited to help me onboard and I launched my fan token without a plan beyond wanting to learn by doing. Don’t over index on trying to enter into a new community perfectly or for financial reasons. Engage to learn. 

More to come….

AMA - if you have any questions about how spam detection works in Warpcast, I'll answer them over the next few hours.

We're launching a new experiment to help users avoid the spam label.

A note on "permanent" spam labels 

If you ignore the warning and get the spam label, it won't be removed until you show a long period of good behavior. This maybe several weeks or months until we re-evalaute your account and you've posted enough so that we know you're not spammy. 

(we are still building this system so its effectively permanent for now)

AMA - is there anything about how the Warpcast feed works that you'd like to learn more about?

Is there any good data on blockchain state growth? 

Want to understand how many megabytes or gigabytes per day are being added to full nodes in Eth, Solana etc.

Doing some research to see how we can reduce spam further on Farcaster

Doing some research into verifications we can use to eliminate bots, please vote!

At Warpcast, we also love graphs that go down and to the right

im very late, but i just discovered 3blue1brown and damn is this channel good

Dev call starts in 8 mins! 

Dial in details here:

Dev call starts in 8 mins! 

Dial in details here: https://warpcast.notion.site/Sep-12-2024-f629100d1aed4af2864da73d1b1e5520

It's 2024

If the name of your new project includes 'bit', 'block', 'coin', or 'chain', please try again

FIP: Snapchain 

A new proposal to introduce global ordering to Farcaster hubs. We'll discuss this in more detail in the dev call tomorrow, but sharing an early draft for feedback.

https://warpcast.notion.site/Snapchain-Public-0e6b7e51faf74be1846803cb74493886

sorry not sorry 

https://warpcast.com/v/0x7528f3b6

@vrypan.eth has a bunch of very interesting ideas in this post. 

we're not pursuing them today, but i suspect we might in the next year or two if things keep growing!

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net (home), /weatherxm (work), @l--o--l (fun). Also https://paragraph.xyz/@purplesubmarine

@vrypan.eth has a bunch of very interesting ideas in this post. 

we're not pursuing them today, but i suspect we might in the next year or two if things keep growing! 

https://blog.vrypan.net/2024/06/26/farcaster-l2/

Agenda for tomorrow's protocol meeting

- Hub Reliability 
- Snapchain / Ordering 
- Channel Improvements 

See you all tomorrow at 10am PT!

Agenda for tomorrow's protocol meeting

- Hub Reliability 
- Snapchain / Ordering 
- Channel Improvements 

See you all tomorrow at 10am PT!

https://warpcast.notion.site/Sep-12-2024-f629100d1aed4af2864da73d1b1e5520?pvs=74

I used to think that bots on Farcaster were problematic because of spam, but it's bigger than that.

If I respond to a bot, I feel like an idiot who wasted his time building a connection with a ChatGPT wrapper. 

It makes me suspicious of new users, and I tend to respond primarily to people I already know. This means that it's harder for genuine new users to build relationships on the network.

It could be fine for social *media*, but it's bad for the social *network*. 

What would be the ways to mitigate that?

about to ship some improvements to the spam model that will make a lot of the bots go away. 

will be a constant cat and mouse game, but we will win in the long run.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun