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Pichi
@pichi
Are we casting better- or are we just better at the engagement games? 2025 brought the Warpcast Rewards Leaderboard to the ecosystem and it’s definitely changed the way people engage. DAU haven’t really changed. The numbers in January 2025 and May 2025 are pretty much the same, but there’s a drastic difference and how many orphaned casts are on the network. Orphaned casts are casts that get zero engagement: no likes, no replies, no recast. In January about 80% of cast on the network fit into this bucket, but today that number has changed dramatically and only 60% of the cast on the network are now orphaned. Has the leaderboard caused this behavioral shift? Have people learned to cast better and caught onto the Farcaster culture more quickly?
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Pichi
@pichi
The downfall of Moxie definitely changed behavior on the network. Reply farming has almost completely stopped. Most spammers have left channels alone because there’s a little incentive to cast in them. The rewards algorithm only rewards top level cast and only 50 of them. The accounts the cast AI slop every hour on the hour have definitely retreated into the background. Since replying to a top level cast doesn’t actually get you any monetary incentive it seems like engagement has become more authentic over the past couple of months. Sometimes things feel a little quiet and I can definitely tell when the team is tweaking the algorithm, but I’d rather have authentic quality interactions than tons of replies from an inauthentic accounts.
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Jay Golding
@jaygoldingart
I gotta agree 👌🏾
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Pichi
@pichi
It’s been much quieter for me the past two months.
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