The fastest way to grow a following and gain influence on farcaster these days is by handing out free internet money. Once you’ve done that, even if you stop later, the influence sticks because people still hold out hope you’ll give more in the future. It happened with degen, it’s happening with noice. It’s also not necessarily a bad thing, less about manipulation and more about understanding the game.

ᴡɪʀᴇᴅ ꜰᴏʀ ᴡᴏɴᴅᴇʀ, ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ꜱᴇɴꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ . ɪ ᴀꜱᴋ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ɪ ᴄᴀʀᴇ. ɪ ᴄᴀꜱᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ.

Rewards is the fast way to get followers, but how to keep interactions is more important..

Content is still the king.

Building /recaster, a third-party Farcaster client

Yes content is still king but the protocol is still too small and the community is still so tight not to recognize the content in question early, most people here give out interactions based on who they already know

Keeping interactions after luring them with rewards is easy.