farcasterunion

The Algo’s Just Not That Into You...

Some of us have been watching this for weeks, using public data (via Dune + new tools) to confirm what we’ve felt:

The feed is ghosting longtime contributors and artificially launching newcomers into orbit.

Let's dig in!

"artificial algorithmic boosting" is alive and well

farcaster (client) is centralized

opinionated and can function as tastemakers/gatekeepers

no different than web2 social in this regard

"artificial algorithmic boosting" is alive and well

farcaster (client) is centralized

opinionated and can function as tastemakers/gatekeepers

no different than web2 social in this regard https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x94855f29

I like running, poker and oysters | Founder, Social Forensics | Berkeley & UPenn | Learning to listen

Another well-funded client with an entirely different algo launches tomorrow.

assuming that takes off, will you still invest in this client?

just noticed your comment is shown as first in Farcaster and last in coinbasewallet

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Yes. We will continue focusing on our client.