First Draft Club

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?

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Hosting: /sakura /kyoto /momiji  /anime-manga /farcasterunion

https://portrait.so/pichi

Host /videogamemusic - Warpcast Peeps Podcaster - Weekly Comic Fwarkast! - Mod /justbuild /ogiri - Casts in ENG/JP

I think us long termers (especially overseas) have jumped through many hoops, so we're quite resilient lmao
Power badges, spam labels, verifications.
Next chapter: Non Authentic Users
May need to do sybil tests in the future for IRL meetings 😂 (Half joking, half serious when looking at the Monad approach for role bonuses for people who do IRL meet ups)

lol, I honestly can’t tell how the vibes are. My experience is still colored by FarCon and I’m riding the high of connecting with folks IRL.