Farcaster

Heyo Anon!

Getting spam jailed frequently?

Here are some tips to avoid being labelled spam 👉🏿 

📍Don't ask for followers, let it come naturally 
📍Engage like an actual user rather than a bot
📍Use mini-apps, do verification, wallet activities etc
📍let your replies relate to posts you're replying to
📍don't tag random people 
📍Need engagement from non-followers? Try channels 
📍Got spam jailed? give it a rest(some days) before actively posting again.

Like this post? Recast it to your audience so they learn. 
Thanks 👍🏿

Alright!

I'm fully back online after a while.

I decided to take a week off after recovering 

Health🏥 is wealth 🤑

What's the update on Farcaster 

Any news?

First Draft Club

The Algo’s Just Not That Into You

Something weird is happening on Farcaster, and it’s time we talk about it openly. This isn’t just “home feed doing home feed things.” It’s much deeper and more concerning. 

Some casts are skyrocketing with 10k+ views from accounts that have 1k followers. Meanwhile, longtime casters with 100k+ followers are seeing reach crater by 50%. The math doesn’t add up…unless something’s being boosted.

We’re watching artificial amplification play out in real time and this experiment needs to end now before more trust is lost. 

The algorithm cares more about engagement quality than raw follower numbers. There are several Dune queries who show the most popular casters by the numbers, but they do NOT align with the Farcaster Leaderboard. We know that not everyone’s engagement is weighted equally, and most of us have come to begrudgingly accept this fact. 

The home and trending feed have always favored certain accounts, and as little as two engagements with those accounts can amplify a cast to trending.  We see it and have come to terms with it. 

But recently, we’ve seen a new trend emerge: artificial algorithmic boosting…to levels never before seen on Farcaster…and we need to stop dancing around the subject and talk about it. 

A user with 1,000 followers might have a highly active niche audience, while someone with 250,000 might have a large but disengaged base…but we have Dune queries to show us how “active” each account’s followers have been over the last 7 and 30 days. 

Very large accounts (6-figure followings) tend to have about 50% of their followers be considered “active” under this metric (active=have casted, liked, or recasted).

Newer accounts skew higher because many are only a few weeks old, so most of their followers are obviously active. 

If the algorithm is boosting based on more active followers, it could explain the great discrepancies we are seeing in reach, so we need to look deeper. 

A new tool has emerged that lets us look into the number of unique accounts that interacted with a user's content in the last 30 days, and the data is very telling. This data counts everyone on the protocol, not just those with good spam labels. 

If you think your engagement has gone down a lot over the past few weeks, you aren’t imagining it. Usually, if 2-3% of your followers interact with your casts, you are doing great.  But what if most of the people who follow you never even see your casts in the latest version of the algorithm? Spoiler alert: they don’t. 

Let’s compare some of the biggest, most established accounts on the network to newer accounts who I believe are being artificially amplified. 

These accounts all have well over 100,000 followers each (even more on the protocol!), cast daily, and consistently engage back with the network. Their content and casting patterns have not changed noticeably over the last 30 days. 

The number of unique accounts they have reached in the last 30 days and how much their engagement is down is as follows:

15,400 (down 67%)
7,500 (down 49%)
1,500 (down 29%)
2,700 (down 36%)
6,500 (down 55%)
4,200 (down 54%)

Now let’s compare this to one of the new accounts that I believe are being purposely placed into many users’ home feeds (note that these accounts have 1,000-3,000 followers). 

10,500

The number of views on many of their casts are also between 10,000 and 18,000 views. Remember, the data above shows interactions, but even more people have seen these casts!

A user with 1,000 followers getting seen by 10,000+ people requires external amplification.

That reach doesn’t emerge organically. The algorithm chose to show them beyond their organic social graph. 

Observing a few examples of weird reach/follower ratios doesn’t necessarily prove systemic bias.  Visibility is complex and can swing based on timing, interaction graphs, and reposts by top casters, but the math doesn’t add up without boosting.

The people getting boosted didn’t necessarily ask to be. Now they’re targets of backlash; they are victims as well. 

Meanwhile, those who have not had this type of algorithmic boost feel invisible and demoralized, even if they’ve consistently added value to the community.

It’s creating a toxic imbalance that erodes trust across the board. We can politely say “vibes are off” and tell people to just mute what they don’t want to see, but that’s not going to solve the issue at hand. This is deeper than engagement FOMO.
We are watching something we’ve invested time into start to resemble the very platforms we came here to escape.

The algorithm may be silent, but its choices are loud. If it is hand picking winners, the rest of us should stop pretending we’re playing the same game. Invest your time here accordingly.

This line here resonates with a lot of community's thought. I didn't leave X(which has more audience) for Farcaster and still be subjected to the same negativity that made me leave X.

Let's hope the team fixes the issues. I have no qualms whatsoever with fresh accounts being boosted but regular accounts being nerfed doesn't sit well with me. 
I still believe in Farcaster though, I'm fully locked-in.

Animal lover, try to build a shelter for street cats & dogs.

A reply girl in Farcaster and X. Community builder

Gm Casters 🟣

New week, same grind, improvised strategy. 

Grab your tools and start grinding 

Breakthrough incoming

health

Typhoid and malaria are two sickness I would gladly eradicate if I could. Typhoid especially is very worrying for me. If I ever die from sickness, it'll probably be typhoid

Gm Casters 💜

Happy Sunday 🌞 

Grateful for full recovery 

Drink Orange 🍊 juice 

Back to grinding 👌🏿🖊️

when it rains, it pours. airdrop of 2B $noice, live

NOW. 

to claim: quote cast this post and tag creators who make farcaster noice for you 😘

noice

Apparently it's @noicebot 

Noice me already

reply guys

Building mini apps in Farcaster

Reply App - https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/ZuqxLQnWC2Nh/reply

Love the good work. Prioritizing a stable backend will make a huge difference. Appreciate the transparency and commitment to user experience.

I'm too stressed to continue quoting @noiceapp , @srijan.eth can you get this working properly?
Can't skip my friends while at it, @jessyblaze1 , @bueze

I’m JessyBlaze.

Fun to be around, full of vibes. She loves
DeFi and Xploring new things.

Food

History is forever important 

Too many people are ignorant of their history

Some even devalue their own culture and hail foreign ones

Chess

med student, tech enthusiast, sport lover

The insult probably provoked him and made him more concentrated

Nature

Happy Sunday Casters 

Gm and welcome to a new day 

We're all touching grass today right?

learning about farcaster :) | Photography | Reader | crypto gurlyy :p

Determined Learner|| Drop hunter|| Defi analyst|| Solana ❤️‍🔥|| Invictus maneo

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Sino

@sino