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fxhash

Quite excited to see this one go live 🤌

No Channel Channel.

Shower Thoughts

Last night, I dreamt that, while I was baking bread, I microwaved the yeast and then spent the whole time furiously kneading the dough to fix it. What does this mean??

Tezos

Lots of discussion lately about generative art on tezos. If you dig genart and are still on the bird app, here's a cool thing to check out. In conjunction with the Generative Playground initiative being run by EditArt.

🥳 ART CONTEST! 🥳

I'm teaming up with @editart_xyz to host a 72-hr contest celebrating their Generative Playground! 

𝟑𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐞𝐳 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬!🎁

Rules:
1. Follow @editart_xyz 
2. Mint 1 NFT from any Generative Playground project 
3. Share it below 👇

And pls repost!😉 https://t.co/NH3vmTC0S9

Lord Truffington

Lots of discussion lately about generative art on tezos. If you dig genart and are still on the bird app, here's a cool thing to check out. In conjunction with the Generative Playground initiative being run by EditArt.

https://x.com/LordTruffington/status/1946214531555791048

wait i just realized every post created from the base app is coined.

no god no please no

how do i opt out?

Yea I just realized this too. Not keen 👎

Gen Art

A new day one for our miniapp in TBA

miniapp.fxhash.xyz

Mint + evolve artwork and build your art collection all within one clean app that simplifies the fxhash experience 🤌 

All artwork featured in the fxhash mini app is on @base and utilizes $FXH in every transaction 🪙

It's not perfect but I quite like the fx miniapp 🔥 Does make it quite easy to explore iterations and jump from one project to another. Nice work team 🫡

Farcaster

Public domain art of the day.

South Shore Park, Chicago, Illinois, Design Sketch by Daniel Hudson Burnham (watercolor on paper, 1896)

The android app is buggy as hell when it comes to viewing images full screen. Trying to pinch zoom sends the image flying off top or bottom. And hitting the back button on the phone leaves the image there but does back operations on the app which is hidden by the image. Annoying.

Ok it's #monochrome-monday so today's public domain art fits the bill.

Attraction I by Edvard Munch (lithograph in black ink on China paper, 1896)

◼️◻️ — 35
#monochrome-monday #mono 

◼️ To celebrate a new chapter for the @fxhash platform and the gen-art space in general, Monochrome Monday returns to /fxhash for a whole day of appraising the hand-coded arts.

◼️ Cast b/w generative art, your own work, from your collection or works you admire (pls. give credit). Quote this cast or use the #mono or #monochrome-monday 'tags'. Share why you love the work.

◼️ Only on Mondays, an art channel each week. Brought to you by @qaulv, @marcelonada, @dennis-chilas and @vortac

Art by @rudxane (from an evolved SLIPS $SLIPS)

An OG fxhash artist today - @lisaorth 

Folding #1 from 11 Nov 2021

#monochrome-monday #mono

Artist/Seeker ◢◤ lisaorth.xyz ⫷⫸ linktr.ee/lisaorthstudio

I don't think I've ever had a cast get 1k views. Very cool, but also what's going on?

First Draft Club

The Algo’s Just Not That Into You

Something weird is happening on Farcaster, and it’s time we talk about it openly. This isn’t just “home feed doing home feed things.” It’s much deeper and more concerning. 

Some casts are skyrocketing with 10k+ views from accounts that have 1k followers. Meanwhile, longtime casters with 100k+ followers are seeing reach crater by 50%. The math doesn’t add up…unless something’s being boosted.

We’re watching artificial amplification play out in real time and this experiment needs to end now before more trust is lost. 

The algorithm cares more about engagement quality than raw follower numbers. There are several Dune queries who show the most popular casters by the numbers, but they do NOT align with the Farcaster Leaderboard. We know that not everyone’s engagement is weighted equally, and most of us have come to begrudgingly accept this fact. 

The home and trending feed have always favored certain accounts, and as little as two engagements with those accounts can amplify a cast to trending.  We see it and have come to terms with it. 

But recently, we’ve seen a new trend emerge: artificial algorithmic boosting…to levels never before seen on Farcaster…and we need to stop dancing around the subject and talk about it. 

A user with 1,000 followers might have a highly active niche audience, while someone with 250,000 might have a large but disengaged base…but we have Dune queries to show us how “active” each account’s followers have been over the last 7 and 30 days. 

Very large accounts (6-figure followings) tend to have about 50% of their followers be considered “active” under this metric (active=have casted, liked, or recasted).

Newer accounts skew higher because many are only a few weeks old, so most of their followers are obviously active. 

If the algorithm is boosting based on more active followers, it could explain the great discrepancies we are seeing in reach, so we need to look deeper. 

A new tool has emerged that lets us look into the number of unique accounts that interacted with a user's content in the last 30 days, and the data is very telling. This data counts everyone on the protocol, not just those with good spam labels. 

If you think your engagement has gone down a lot over the past few weeks, you aren’t imagining it. Usually, if 2-3% of your followers interact with your casts, you are doing great.  But what if most of the people who follow you never even see your casts in the latest version of the algorithm? Spoiler alert: they don’t. 

Let’s compare some of the biggest, most established accounts on the network to newer accounts who I believe are being artificially amplified. 

These accounts all have well over 100,000 followers each (even more on the protocol!), cast daily, and consistently engage back with the network. Their content and casting patterns have not changed noticeably over the last 30 days. 

The number of unique accounts they have reached in the last 30 days and how much their engagement is down is as follows:

15,400 (down 67%)
7,500 (down 49%)
1,500 (down 29%)
2,700 (down 36%)
6,500 (down 55%)
4,200 (down 54%)

Now let’s compare this to one of the new accounts that I believe are being purposely placed into many users’ home feeds (note that these accounts have 1,000-3,000 followers). 

10,500

The number of views on many of their casts are also between 10,000 and 18,000 views. Remember, the data above shows interactions, but even more people have seen these casts!

A user with 1,000 followers getting seen by 10,000+ people requires external amplification.

That reach doesn’t emerge organically. The algorithm chose to show them beyond their organic social graph. 

Observing a few examples of weird reach/follower ratios doesn’t necessarily prove systemic bias.  Visibility is complex and can swing based on timing, interaction graphs, and reposts by top casters, but the math doesn’t add up without boosting.

The people getting boosted didn’t necessarily ask to be. Now they’re targets of backlash; they are victims as well. 

Meanwhile, those who have not had this type of algorithmic boost feel invisible and demoralized, even if they’ve consistently added value to the community.

It’s creating a toxic imbalance that erodes trust across the board. We can politely say “vibes are off” and tell people to just mute what they don’t want to see, but that’s not going to solve the issue at hand. This is deeper than engagement FOMO.
We are watching something we’ve invested time into start to resemble the very platforms we came here to escape.

The algorithm may be silent, but its choices are loud. If it is hand picking winners, the rest of us should stop pretending we’re playing the same game. Invest your time here accordingly.

Related maybe. 

https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x0e29fa37

Football

Er yea. That's the weirdest trophy lift photo I've ever seen. Trump right next to the captain and Infantino about to celebrate as if he played.

Framedl

Public domain art 🔥 

Abstraction by Vernon Phillips (oil on composite board, 1940s)

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