if all you care about here is the leaderboard, you're gonna have a bad time

it's never been (only) about quality of words you put in your casts (the same sentence hits different from different people). it's all about (transitive) PoW — and that's a good thing 

fwiw that's why anoncasting, in its current form, is almost entirely uninteresting

Nobody’s ready for the real Farcaster conspiracy:
The leaderboard is rigged.

Think about it. A handful of fids have dominated the top 20, week after week, across totally different themes, trends, and audiences. New users rise? They bounce. High-effort creators? Ignored. But somehow, the same inner circle stays locked in.

It’s not about money. It’s about control of attention. Visibility is currency, and the leaderboard is the printing press. You think you’re casting into an open network but you’re really playing an unwinnable game against an algorithmic aristocracy.

Decentralized? Or just decently curated to keep the same names at the top?

Ask yourself: who benefits from this illusion of meritocracy?
Then ask yourself: how many of your casts never even stood a chance?

This isn’t sour grapes. It’s systemic.

fortune cookie casts, memes, parenting, building mini apps, /framedl, /framedl-pro & /calmer

It reads ChatGPT-written.

Anon might want to consider if he can't even write his own casts, it is most definitely sour grapes.

also i was originally quoting this https://farcaster.xyz/anonpost/0xa5317cc0

i don't think it misses them, but i understand why it feels like that (exponential distribution of returns)

it's difficult to appreciate getting some value (attention, engagement, coins) when "this guy who's certainly less cool than me" got way more of it

anyway, i really appreciate the real ones here and especially those who don't get discouraged by inequalities (which are inevitable) and just keep doing their thing. replyguys, mfers, degen, lp/ham/deployer fan club…

Crypto’s issue is it misses the middle. There is the cabal class. The hustle class. 

And then. The !vibers. The supporters. The real ones. 

Pour one out for those guys.

Noob Trader | Noob NFT Collector | Noob Investor

Yeah 80% of our casts would be framedl. Imagine getting to the top just posting that definitely bearish 😅

haha, yeah. not gonna lie, i like to watch my position too, but at the same time would feel absolutely bearish for farcaster if i got to top 😂

I imagine folks trying so hard for the leaderboard rank is like the social credit episode from black mirror.

It's not ALL I care about, but I think the The Leaderboard is a pretty fine mini app 😑

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love your spin on the leaderboard tech 😂

It's not ALL I care about, but I think the The Leaderboard is a pretty fine mini app 😑 https://leaderboard.frm.lol/leaderboard/app

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Night Time: wannabe Philosopher

Posting my journey to grow mentally, emotionally, and be healthy.

Well,  i see that there are clear influencers on farcaster, right? 

People who can say two words, get 100s of views,  sit on the leaderboard,  make money via leaderboard rewards, airdrops, etc.

So you feel like the game is rigged against you. 

However!  It seems like more of those folks, “the cabal” if you will, do indeed interact with everyone, on the one hand.  Which helps, if you are focused on the leaderboard, just because things are interesting right. 

On the other,  as a little folk (we’re all our own version of little folk) spending more time just interacting with what you’re interested in (popular influenced or not) can satisfy interests,  help you have a good old time, and see some rewards (monetary or otherwise) as well. 

So you see a lot of folks feeling better about being wherever they are on the leaderboard, earning some rewards, and more importantly, just having a good time on farcaster.

Aka spend more time having fun, then the split between big and small dissipates.

Even though I see a dissonance between the “cabal” and the rest, I notice that the difference seems to be disappearing.  Probably it’s my concern about that difference that seems to be disappearing.

my fav part here is the discussions and what feel like real friendships that I’ve made with people.  

even better is the way that I’ve had people change my pov on certain topics.  

you can’t get that when you’re anon.

Building /oz with $oz on Farcaster, Base and beyond.

tldr; 

There’s clearly favoritism and curating, that’s literally every “platform” for a reason, but if the leaderboard objectively doesn’t mean everything on an app, then a leaderboard number/tier isn’t indicative of qualities outside “core product narrative”. 

I’ll put my ramble back in the bag, brain said “framedl dev post!” and I was compelled out of respect for your work to thought dump many a word here. 😂

Now this isn’t a bad thing per se (don’t mind my yap) because those last words are key. 

Low floor. High ceiling. 

This means that anyone has a fair shot to not just be someone, but also to be a part of deciding what a rank or engagement rate means. If leaderboard position is all that matters to you then this won’t help you either way. 

I’d love to wind up top cabal, I’d happily be the replyguy statistic busting outlier proving myself and others wrong. Or right. 

But what’s even more important is the accounts I’m noticing rank around me, above that threshold, and where I fall when I derank a tier or two. 

Data, engagement, and “social graph” metrics are never binary charts with a single purpose in observation (grow/decline). Geoff’s delves into data are a great example/approach with this. There’s a bit of “first is the worst second is the best” that works here and that’s powerful stuff.

I made a snarky silly comment about this once on how only KOLs get read/reply attention from the top typically *and* that a better feedback system (channel) would be an idea, of which that post got a comment about me wasting an opportunity to make a meaningful reply.

… so then I posted the collection of meaningful replies I made over the past months that were seemingly missed (1 was UX/UI which appeared to actually have been implemented) yet even the well-placed slice of humble pie got ignored further suggesting to me it still is a KOL/DAU focus at the top.

Until they achieve their prize we’re all being given a sandbox with a subtle “Marketing Narrative” we must fit to be bigger than curated KOL “cabal” pool. I’ve been around enough to understand and expect it but it leaves the machine of the protocol feeling a bit starved for humanity once you pull back the curtain on the wizards. 

Low floor, high ceiling.

I don’t want to be a part of any club that has me on a leaderboard 😅