First Draft Club

Are we casting better- or are we just better at the engagement games?

2025 brought the Warpcast Rewards Leaderboard to the ecosystem and it’s definitely changed the way people engage. DAU haven’t really changed. The numbers in January 2025 and May 2025 are pretty much the same, but there’s a drastic difference and how many orphaned casts are on the network. 

Orphaned casts are casts that get zero engagement: no likes, no replies, no recast. In January about 80% of cast on the network fit into this bucket, but today that number has changed dramatically and  only 60% of the cast on the network are now orphaned.  

Has the leaderboard caused this behavioral shift? Have people learned to cast better and caught onto the Farcaster culture more quickly?

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Hosting: /sakura /kyoto /momiji  /anime-manga /farcasterunion

https://portrait.so/pichi

Looks like more than half the daily casts but the same amount of unique FIDs casting. So clearly same people but less casts from the active FIDs every day. 

Same amount of DAU but about 35% of the casts from 6 months ago.

I always use this Dune:

https://www.dune.com/queries/3024331/5024400