Farcaster Union

Audio on Farhouse, chat is here: https://mobile.farhouse.club/s/pichi/9359

TBA/Base App, Farcaster Bidding for Posts and so much more!

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It’s showing “ waiting for signer approval” been seeing that for a while

weird! they can DM me or @ me if they have any issues

Some folks are getting weird errors. so trying other browsers

Farhouse someones rugs us and you have to come back into the app and there may be 2 of you!

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Excited to get some intel on channels from @jdl who recapped the Farcaster dev call

Farcaster

Farcaster doesn’t have a growth problem. It has an identity problem.

The users are already here: builders, artists, indie hackers, founders, and creators. Not future users—present ones. They’re casting, tipping, building, shipping, connecting. The challenge isn’t how to attract them. It’s how to see them.

I wasn’t onboarded. I wasn’t converted. I found Farcaster through Discord. Inceptionally invited me to co-host /itookaphoto. I had a role. I made friends. I built. I earned. I stayed. That’s the story. And I’m not unique. The platform didn’t onboard me. The network did.

The network is the onboarding team. The network is the sales team. Every friend invite, channel discovery, and moment of recognition is where conversion happens. Farcaster doesn’t need a better funnel. It needs to empower the people who are already doing the work of onboarding.

That’s Farcaster’s strength—and its blind spot. The team still hasn’t clearly said who this platform is for. If they had, more of us would’ve heard it. “Make money, make friends” is directionally right—but spiritually flat.

If Merkle knew how to tell the world what Farcaster is with clarity, they’d already be doing it. And if the message isn’t for innovators and adventurous early adopters, who is it for?

People don’t just use social networks. They identify with them. Farcaster is edgy. Crypto-native. Experimental. Weird. It’s not mainstream, and that’s the point. The people here are opting into a scene. A vibe. A frontier. And that posture attracts the right kinds of early users. This isn’t Twitter, TikTok, or LinkedIn with a wallet. It’s something new.

The myth is already being written. The team ships features. But the network is building the narrative. The most powerful rituals and culture didn’t come from a product brief. They emerged. And they’re spreading. That’s not roadmap work. That’s recognition work.

Meanwhile, channels—arguably the most important surface for community, identity, and belonging—have been given less direct attention from the core team. They’ve largely been supported by external contributors and passionate builders like @cura. That may have made sense operationally, but strategically, it’s risky. Channels are how users onboard each other. How people discover relevance. How culture gets sticky. If you want retention, channels aren’t optional—they’re foundational.

And yes, monetization matters. It’s a key draw. It’s a functional job. But people don’t stay for features. They stay for feeling.

Let me be seen.
Let me find my people.
Let me make friends.
Let me matter.

These are emotional jobs. They’re the difference between checking in and buying in.

Farcaster isn’t sticky. It’s selective. It takes effort. It takes intent. That’s what makes it work—for now. But you can’t scale selectivity without understanding what’s already working for the people who are here.

There are over 1 million FIDs. But real engagement lives with fewer than 10,000. According to one Dune dashboard, roughly 7,000 users—VIPs, influencers, stars, and active casters—drive the majority of platform activity. That’s not a sample. That’s the source code.

These aren’t casuals. They’re believers. Builders. Super early adopters. Innovators with skin in the game. Many paid for Pro memberships. They fund the culture. They shape the tone. They are the Farcaster experience. You don’t grow by looking past them. You grow by starting with them.

But here’s the miss: the people closest to the product don’t always know what the product feels like to use. The community does. Yet the insights—the why behind the usage, the meaning behind the behavior—often stay siloed inside Merkle. And when that knowledge doesn’t circulate, the network can’t sell what it doesn’t fully understand.

Imagine a company where the people closest to the customer never share insights with sales or marketing.
Would you expect them to succeed?
Of course not. Yet that’s what’s happening here.

Farcaster doesn’t need a better story. It needs to tell the story the community is already living.

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Stop chasing more.
Start recognizing who’s already here.
Support them. Reflect them. Speak to them.

Farcaster is already working. It just doesn’t know it yet.

👇 If you’re building here, show yourself.
If you’re watching from the outside, the door’s open.
But this isn’t a mass-market product.
It’s a movement in motion.

Finally we can add link attachments in our chats and it goes without hiccups🤩

https://farcaster.xyz/jonathancolton/0xab74c81b

Channels are loved by many; we may need to help shape the messaging of what means the most to us as users/hosts and how we use channels today

Enjoyed my chat about channels this morning with @humpty.eth and @resipsa!

First 30 min is the interview. Worth a watch if you care about channels. 

https://youtu.be/Ivn5dCAvjnw?si=EWVG6OOjrUF9pNkG

Dan chatting with @humpty about his latest thoughts on channels:

Sorry I didn’t see you in the app!!

I can only see the first few people in the audience sometimes! Next time say hi! Love your new videos btw!

100 $TIPN

Dan chatting with @humpty about his latest thoughts on channels: https://farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0xac7d2c8b

fc-updates

WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH CHANNELS?

1. Channels aren’t going anywhere anytime soon

2. Our priority is growth; we’re working on a) improving onchain UX with frames + wallet (network differentiation) b) invites + rewards (increase daily actives users) c) protocol improvements to support new clients bringing their own users (increase daily actives users) d) creator onboarding (increase daily active users)

3. Channels, historically, have not driven growth; channels, however, have helped deepen engagement and retention for existing power users.

4. Given limited resources (i.e. focus), we don’t have near term plans to add features to channels.

5. However, nearly all aspects of channels are programmable via a) the protocol b) Warpcast open / free APIs. If there is demand, we may also prioritize making channel registration available API. Note: moving all channels metadata to the protocol is a lot of work that wouldn’t drive near-term growth.

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4 Month old cast on channels: https://farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0x81d19454

Looking for channel owners that spend at least 5 hours a week on growing and managing their channels.

I had a group of people like this last fall, but a bunch of those people no longer seem to be actively working on their channel.

Want to find the people that are *currently* committed to channels.

Please reply here if that’s you.

If you are a channel owner and not in the chat, worth jumping in this:

If you are a channel owner and not in the chat, worth jumping in this: https://farcaster.xyz/dwr.eth/0x086b0636

Dreamer chasing goals one step at a time.

@Awedjob is making a great point about @jesses cast that your content has always had value, we just never benefited from it directly

Farcaster and TBA are taking very different approaches on how creators monetize their content. We don't have to pick. You can try both!

Each cast/reply could be a 1 of one NFT, but only one person can own it at a time

TBA is leaning into coins with a huge amount where many people can buy and choose how much they want to spend

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This is kinda of the way people are talking about @tipn and @noice. I think they are both awesome but i use them in different ways

We don't even have channels in TBA, so I cast from each client differently and it's made me think about them a lot

I feel this should be a ponder  or polymarket

how much do we think wowow or ok banger goes for tmrw?

Dan's cast about low effort replies in response to wowow, was a reply and not a top level cast

there will be a little star next to anything that can be collected