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

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

Anoncasting could (have) give(n) some people, communities a bigger voice aka distribution power. But it wasn‘t used in any meaningful way afaik

ultimately there's an issue with anoncasting, where the opinion value imo correlates negatively with the size of the anonset

i think the only good implementation was superanon, where the purpose was mostly fun and memes

superanon was fun but it could have also been a good meme group.

True anoncasting is prob Only needed rarely, for example for whistleblowing cases.

We rather had a few pseudonymous group accounts that a) no one used to push really interesting content out and b) no group took action to grow the anonsets/groups.

@slokh did some interesting stuff with @anonworld but it always felt like a sidegig watching from the side - not some founder, community pushing for adoption;

which could have also meant having a Reddit Like Website where anon content was rated and only the best content were distributed via different anon accounts to targeted (new) user groups.

Good experiments - but Not more 🙂