A quick history of the Farcaster feed. 

Back in 2021, the first version of the feed just showed you every post, starting with the newest. There wasn't a way to unfollow! This was ok because we were just a 100 or so weird internet people who liked hanging out together. 

We added follows soon after, when someone started annoying someone else. This hurt new users quite a bit because they started with an empty feed and had to do a lot of work to make it good. So we picked the most active users each week and suggested they follow them when signing up. 

It was built in an incredibly simple way. Every time you loaded your app, we'd run a sql query to fetch the latest casts, hydrate the links and images and serve you a feed. At some point, we moved this into a background job so it would run every 30 seconds, and slow down if you stopped checking the app.

You can now contribute to Roman Storm’s legal defense fund through a Farcaster mini app. The Ethereum Foundation is matching up to $750K in donations from the community

https://give.warpcast.com/causes/defend-roman-storm

PSA

New Pro features are live at the protocol.

* 10K character casts
* 4 embeds per cast
* Profile banner images

We're rolling out new the new features on clients. 

We're expecting a bunch of bugs — please reply here with anything that looks borked.

Mobile should be working smoothly today.

Profiles and carousels are coming to web later this week.

Mobile working smoothly 😌 
More innovation Farcaster

I'll take the other side of the bet in whatever quantity you want

Farcaster now starts up 1-4 seconds faster. 

The older your device, the bigger the improvement you'll see. Let us know if you feel the difference! 

More improvements on the way.

Don't underestimate the power of spoken words

297,000+ Farcaster accounts with a connected X / Twitter

110,000+ Farcaster wallets with >$10

12,500+ Pro subscriptions

From Twitter, but I wonder what % of countries on this map the average person on Farcaster could identify.

What if Liquid Glass sets Apple up for a more translucent, glass like phone?

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

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