FarCon

personality hire 🌈🤙 fullstack & ux, building /uno

we are thinking with @erica 

why don’t we organize a farcon vacation in madrid or barcelona one day?? you can’t imagine how much fun we all could have here haha

First Draft Club

Are Channels Still the Future of Farcaster? (🧵)

I used to think so. Now? Not so sure.

Back in April 2024, spam was everyone’s problem on Farcaster. Then the channel overhaul happened and shifted the spam burden to hosts. If your channel is full of spam, it’s on you: Gate better. Moderate harder. Ban faster. 

It’s exhausting and most channel hosts have ignored it or automated it, confusing new folks and aggravating old ones who can’t cast into channels freely. 

Fast forward to April 2025: spammers got smarter. The current model aggressively flags most users as low-value. 80% of casts are orphaned—no replies, no recasts, no likes. Worse, casting into channels doesn’t trigger spam labels, which flipped the whole dynamic and spammers gravitate to casting into some channels hoping for visibility.

Good thoughts. 

Challenge with channels is tension between community vs. tag.

Channels work well when they are communities. That requires a lot of time and effort. Few people want to spend the time building / managing a community.

Average user wants to use them as tags / discovery boost.

Misalignment of incentives. Partially our fault for pushing people to cast in them for a couple years.

Swapped design tips with other creatives over coffee.

pkok art

Degen Art🎩🎨

Enjoyed a peaceful evening sketching new designs.

What is your biggest 'bet-on-self' move?

me: quitting my Architecture job ( after 10 years of time and money spent on being one! )

I taught myself how to code while riding subway in nyc and during lunch breaks. 

Became good enough to get my first engineering job for 30k/yr and never looked back!  It's been the 2nd best decision of my life ( no. 1 being marrying by bestie!)

SuperRare

Planning a pop-up shop for my new collection next month.

Reflecting on the importance of sustainability in fashion.

I Took a Photo!

Songs of a hidden light |

/lightpainting /regularguys

https://superrare.com/takamura?artwork=ONLY_ONE_OF_ONES&artwork

lynkfire.com/ricardotakamura

Base

Raise your FrenPet on the base blockchain

Frenpet.xyz

Welcome to Cat Town; a cosy gamified onchain economy developed by cats for cats

Join us in /cattown and in-game at cat.town

Built with 💙 on @base

with @frenpet, @cattown, @stokefire, @farcade, and others really starting to grow, it's essentially 2007 facebook platform era for gaming on @base. 

only difference is that now builders are on an open platform that *wants* them to go viral and *can't* take it away.

Found a great boutique in Miami. Perfect for unique finds!

Strong social presence 🧊🧊🧊

Building /icebreaker, prev /farcon-nyc

Degen

@jacek Just wondering, where and when did the idea for $Degen come from? I want to know the origin story!

Coming soon: $DEGEN. Zero minting fees, fair distribution. This project is not for personal gain. Airdrops for Farcaster users based on engagement and followers, with more airdrops planned. The goal is to add value and offer a fair way for users to cash in on their Farcaster reputation.

$DEGEN was born out of the chaos in the /degen channel. Here’s the OG spark of the idea from roughly a year ago:

$DEGEN was born out of the chaos in the /degen channel. Here’s the OG spark of the idea from roughly a year ago: https://warpcast.com/jacek/0x8eb071f6

Any fellow designers here? What’s your favorite fabric to work with?

VeganVicky

@vegan-vicky