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.

$hamster /hamster 
martinvr.eth 
deploy.degen.eth

Yes. We will continue focusing on our client.

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

i dabble with ai using open identity data from crypto https://alexpaden.tech

prev startups & racecars

I just want a clone of this app with different trends

And that’s what people on twitter mostly wanted too.. onchain content no bueno, still worse, want better.

Base tries too hard sadly