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Octant is hosting a round for retrogrants on work that’s positively impacted Farcaster. 

If my writing on avoiding the spam label, the Unwritten Rules of Farcaster, or my audio space has helped out you, a friend, or if you think it’s valuable to the Farcaster ecosystem, I’d sincerely appreciate your likes (votes) on this post (liking this top level cast is what counts!)

Self nominating for the following:

My articles including: The Unwritten Rules of Farcarster, Avoiding Spam Labels, How to Be a Good Caster, How to Save Your Friends from Spam Jail, etc. 

My weekly audio space: The State of the Union (formerly Power Hour) where we chat all the changes on Farcaster and how to navigate the app to be successful.

#farcasterrpgfspring2025

*I forgot the hashtag and feel dumb reposting this*

Octant is hosting a round for retrogrants on work that’s positively impacted Farcaster. 

If my writing on avoiding the spam label, the Unwritten Rules of Farcaster, or my audio space has helped out you, a friend, or if you think it’s valuable to the Farcaster ecosystem, I’d sincerely appreciate your likes (votes) on this post (liking this top level cast is what counts!)

Self nominating for the following:

My articles including: The Unwritten Rules of Farcarster, Avoiding Spam Labels, How to Be a Good Caster, How to Save Your Friends from Spam Jail, etc. 

My weekly audio space: The State of the Union (formerly Power Hour) where we chat all the changes on Farcaster and how to navigate the app to be successful.

#farcasterrpgfspring2025

*I forgot the hashtag and feel dumb reposting this*

https://paragraph.com/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels

farcasterunion

The biggest problem with the Warpcast algorithm is that is “spam” means ANY reply with ZERO engagement (no like or reply back). This is very nuanced and difficult to navigate. It is too easy to be labeled as spammy and most users will need to change their behavior when you engage with people who don’t follow you. When you follow each other, the spam rules no longer apply because you are friends.

https://p1yefcr.warpcast.tools/api/frames/cold-goose-28

Please take a moment to read this all the way through. It's long, but might be the most important thing you read all day! At the end, there is a tool to check and see if your account has been marked as spam. 

Please be careful everyone! Do NOT get marked as SPAM!

https://x4pcdfw.warpcast.tools/api/frames/cold-goose-28

I’ve been writing about the challenges of the spam algorithm for over 8 months.

Here’s the first frames I made about Spam:

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

https://portrait.so/pichi

in 5 minutes you could save a friend from a Level 0 Spam label, which is detrimental to their experience on Warpcast! This guide will show you how.

P.S. This is casted in a channel so that anyone can ask questions without fear of getting a spam label. 

As always, appreciate any feedback and thoughts!

How to Save Friends from Spam Jail

https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x1f57f9f1

The Unwritten Rules of Farcaster: Cast A Lot*

When the Warpcast team says: Cast a lot* to be successful and be eligible for airdrops and rewards, that’s a huge oversimplification. 

There’s a BIG asterisk in there that’s invisible, but important understand. You need to cast things that are going to get engagement. Casting for castings sake isn’t going to work out in your favor. 

75-80% of casts on Farcaster get zero engagement. That means no likes, no comments, and no recasts. This is bad.

The Unwritten Rules of Casting A Lot

https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0xac8f4354

Your Farcaster Casts are your CV (a 🧵)

When I get a notification that someone commented on my post and I don’t recognize the name/pfp, the first thing I do is scroll their profile. 

I make a judgement in about 15 seconds and try to determine if I think you are an authentic account or a spammer/scammer/farmer. 

Here are the things I look for:

1. Are you posting original content?
2. Is your profile mostly recasts and frames?
3. If you are casting to big channels (cough /itookaphoto /nature) do the photos look like you took them or are they stolen from Pinterest?
4. Are you casting to channels that generate a lot of spam? (I’m not going to throw shade at the channels in public)

Your Casts are Your Farcaster Resume
https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0xc21d7186

The Unwritten Rules of Farcaster (a thread 1/11)


1.	Don’t ask for follows—most users ignore or avoid those who do.
2.	Engagement matters—treat it as a social network, not just a broadcasting platform.
3.	The algorithm prioritizes engagement—interact with content you like to train your feed.
4.	Give likes freely to support content you enjoy.
5.	Reply thoughtfully—generic responses don’t add value and may be ignored.
6.	Tag people with purpose—avoid tagging non-followers without a good reason.
7.	Use channels to connect—they’re a safe space for engaging beyond your followers.
8.	If you’re being ignored, check your spam label—many won’t see your replies if you’re at Level 0 or 1.
9.	Rules are looser with friends—banter freely, but remember relationships take time to build.
10.	Farcaster is a unique, close-knit community—engage authentically, be patient, and you’ll find your place.

Unwritten Rules of Farcaster
https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x2279a5d6

The Anatomy of a Farcaster Scam (and how to avoid them)

1. An account you’ve most likely never interacted with will send you a DC. 
2. The DC will compliment you or your work and ask for some type of collaboration, consulting job, testing, etc. 
3. If you reply, they may throw out a large number for compensation and ask to have a call to discuss terms. 
4. Usually, right before the agreed meeting time, something will go horribly wrong. The Google Meet or Zoom link they sent won’t work. 
5. You will panic. 
6. They will pressure you that if you can’t meet in the next few minutes, they will need to move to the next candidate on the list. 
7. But magically they will have a solution: they have another video conferencing tool that you can download right now and they know it works. 
8. You click the link without a second thought. 
9. You’ve been scammed and now they drain your wallet with malicious software. 

Let’s show a real life example.

Avoiding Scams on Farcaster

https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0xfe1af460

“Power Hour” is being rebranded!

Since “ActiveOnFcNetwork True or False Flag Hour” doesn’t roll of the tounge, the name of the show is now: 

The State of the Union!

We will talk about the current state of Farcaster and all the changes you need to know!  What’s happening to channels? Moderation? WTF is an active flag? Let’s talk about it all!

l've hosted audio spaces on Tavern and @farhouse for over a year to help folks navigate Farcaster.

If you want to catch the weekly chat, please check the pinned post in /farcasterunion 

Power Hour to State of the Union

l've hosted audio spaces on Tavern and @farhouse for over a year to help folks navigate Farcaster.

If you want to catch the weekly chat, please check the pinned post in /farcasterunion 

Power Hour to State of the Union https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0xbdf378e0

I’ve been writing about the challenges of the spam algorithm for over 8 months.

Here’s the first frames I made about Spam:

https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x6bba9ea6

https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x702be985

community builder-duck #001

/ecocaster /base-bulgarian /ventures

Thank you! It makes me so happy knowing it helped just one person!

You really helped a lot with your casts, articles!

You're quoted in a lot of chats, places and personally helped me deal with a shadowban a year ago🫡🫡

stream of concious writer, music composer, & artist | co-founder of /wac | portrait.so/jacque

Thank you for being an amazing cohost with @torii-stories!

I couldn’t keep up on the chat and people without the two of you!

Would love some funding for state of the union for sure! Keep slaying witch

playing /bracket, assisting /bracky, talking /greatbooks

🌸 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🌸 Thank you so much for the shoutout! 🌸 °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🌸

The Unwritten Rules of Farcaster is one of the single best community contributions I’ve seen since I’ve been here. 

Pichi adds so much here.

crypto and meme lover🫶 
/basenews now Word of the day👀

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Voted for your big impact to the culture!

Barista in the morning, AI engineer by day, and parent (with @shiwen) by night ||
Host at /clickcast /cpg

Scientist, crypto enthusiast, dog lover, amateur photographer, Cat Town Farcaster Community Leader

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Love all the helpful content, keep it up!  Well deserving of a retrogrant imo

Collecting stories at Beams https://paragraph.xyz/@beams ✨ 🔦 Always playing, always learning ✌️ https://deca.art/Ashaverse

Amazing job bringing light to these topics, Pichi! You helped me untangle and understand a lot of these unwritten rules! ❤️

Onchain Artist and Builder of /bizarrebeasts and /bizarrebeastsart.

thanks for all the hard work mfren!!!
50 $degen

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creator of jessyfries 🍟 every bad bitch loves fries i dont make the rules 🥹 mom of @friesgpt 💁🏻‍♀️ /fries >guys/tanaland &
https://m.youtube.com/@jessyfries

I am a crypto enthusiast passionate about my daughter, nature, music, art, photography, travel, friends and human beauty.

Creator of the /live-the-same channel

Carlos Spegazzini, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Your work has always been a shining light in a dark tunnel, where everything is uncertain.
Thank you for all you do for the community. I hope you're recognized for it! 🫶🫶

Join the movement, create a better everything, all we need to do is keep building. /justbuild /talkstory $units $justbuild $moxie

Crypto enthusiast. Love photo, art and music. Algo6

It’s very difficult to explain the nuance even in English!

Thanks for the article, it was interesting to read. I am not a native English speaker, but I understand logically how not to become a spammer, although I do not follow all the rules 100% (many inactive/shameful subscriptions), but from the very beginning i got into the league of non-spammers 👍🔥

Airdrop & NFT hunter | BD at @VictusGlobal_ | @supra-labs insider | MOD | Verify me: http://victusglobal.com/verify

You're always giving out the best of values on farcaster. I am learning a lot from you.

Reneecampbell.eth 

Reneecampbell.degen.eth

* https://bio.site/ReneeCampbell 

*  /flora 
* /reneecampbell 

Creator of Worlds



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OG Gamer Started play NES all the way to Ps5/PC. I’m a Recovering Addict, Crypto,Blockchain/Web3/P2E are my new Drugs! Teach me coding or teach me how to Dougie

This has definitely been a very helpful artical and cast that helped me grow my neynar score

Mini apps will eat the internet | Latest drop: /clankermon | Building : /miniapps /large /fctrivia /flappycaster /jeeves /source @degentip @playsource /jump

I've learned a lot from ur casts @pichi wish u all the best