Zach Lipp on Warpcast

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Please join the discussion, would love to hear your opinions: I'm constantly thinking about how to improve this platform for artists, collectors and art enjoyers alike. I kind of left Twitter/X for various reasons, since Musk took over and turned it into a propaganda machine. But whenever I return there for a quick update, my art feed is really top notch. Almost everybody who is active here, also posts or cross-shares frequently on X as well. But more important, a lot of artist I want to follow and I want to be informed about only post there (and maybe on Bluesky, Mastodon, IG as well, don't know). Point is, they all have a Farcaster account, but turned their backs on the platform at some point or never really got into it. I would therefore be delighted if they were to return and exploit Farcaster's potential.

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- What is better solved on other platforms? What are currently the biggest pain points? Onboarding, I onboarded a lot of artists in April of 2024. Zero are still here. I don’t say this lightly. Zero. Why would an artist come to Farcaster or another social network? Two reasons that come to mind - better visibility (they feel seen) or better financial opportunities. I have spent a year here full time and have put so much time and energy into Farcaster, I would say more than 99% of others who came on at the same time. I currently have less visibility than I did when I left X (7900 followers on Farcaster vs 8300 followers on X), but it doesn’t bother me because of the financial rewards. I’ve also been able to grow to 7300 followers on Rodeo which now feels like my strongest social profile. At current rates, I will have more followers on Rodeo than either Farcaster or X, within weeks. continued below…

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So that leaves us to financial opportunities. This is where I have seen a huge advantage on Farcaster over X. However, this is where the biggest challenges also exist within the art community. There are many unspoken rules that people are expected to know when they get here. In reality, it’s impossible unless you have someone or a team who is willing to stake their own reputation on you, and you will need a lot of help, like, a lottttt of help. In pursuit of financial rewards, you need to somehow, some way, avoid being called a spammer. But, you need to do this in every ecosystem too. You need to avoid the spam label on Warpcast, but you also need to do this within whatever tipping token ecosystems you are participating in. continued below…

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Then, artists start participating in tipping tokens. Most recently, many artists got burned by $RARE being labeled a farmer. There was no explanation given to them, they just lost the tips they were given overnight. The team was unaccountable and did not provide explanations. Then, artists got burned by $degen, once again being called farmers. This happened on the last day before claim with a rule that was put in place at the very last minute. I had 1 artist left on Farcaster who had stuck with it through it all, that I onboarded in late March of 2024 when I joined. In terms of her art, @fdilekyurdakul is the best of the best, she has received nearly every accolade possible for her work irl. I supported her in any and every way I possibly could here, at every single turn. That was not enough. Continued below…

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Dilek finally has had enough. I don’t think she will return to X either. I tell her story because I think it’s an important one. Every tip I gave her with $RARE and $degen in the last seasons (which was significant) was negated by those teams because they labeled her a farmer. She earned these tips. She contributed to my /aerial channel every single day. She was contributing behind the scenes, curating art that collectors were acquiring at scale on Rodeo. People don’t understand the dominos that fall when we lose someone like this on Farcaster. Art lost. Are there other opportunities here? Of course there are, but that’s hard to see when you’ve been burned again and again and you are labeled and put into dune dashboards as a farmer. I don’t know how to salvage that one. So, where does that leave us? I’ve recently been onboarding people to Rodeo. This has way less friction and is more easily understood. Maybe that can be a conduit to Farcaster.

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