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37. Farcaster's Operating System.

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Post-release 37.rocks notes 1. I shipped a few small things: - you can now click profiles in Club and open them directly - added an "Add to Desktop" button in Profile Viewer - added quick reactions in Inbox, so you can reply / like / recast without opening the full cast - added more kitties - fixed the Inbox request timeout issue I'll work on folder-based feeds and small updates across the whole environment to enrich it. 2. 37 won't be token-gated at the front door It just doesn't feel right to fragment the community even more or create an artificial gate around something that should first be felt and used. On the contrary, 37 should stay open. If you want a license key, just ping me. 3. I added "Pet Rock" Meet Mr. Pet Rock! It checks if you hold 37,000,000 $ROCK and wakes up a little Pet Rock on your desktop. You can actually launch as many Mr. Pet Rocks as you want. Maybe one day he'll become a tiny Clippy-like desktop helper, but for now he mostly says "me like desktop". This is the first tiny pilot of $ROCK usage inside 37. It uses the `rock` plugin in ROCK runtime under the hood, as I plan to integrate the token natively into the runtime for Lua scripters. I have bigger things I want to do with the token as a material inside the world, but I don't want to announce before something exists. For now, I'll focus on making sure that the environment feels fuller and cozier.

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Public license keys for 37.rocks 37-1F2F-AE3C-C5DC 37-FC0E-FA77-353F 37-4E06-AA81-57D9 37-3D9D-E6DC-F57D 37-15B6-41C9-A291

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37.rocks is online! with 37 i'm trying to explore a new medium / new ground for Farcaster, our beloved decentralized social platform. i took inspiration from @v's article "Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks", especially this part: "The idea maze of things you can do with decentralized identities, blockchains and zk-proofs is large, weird and interesting enough that there are probably many primitives waiting to be discovered. Decentralized social networks should explore this as a way to attract users." this is exactly the direction i want to take. with 37, i'm trying to explore the social network as a filesystem. kinda like Obsidian, but in a broader and weirder way. throw away social MEDIA. let's bring back the feeling of social spaces. 37 is an operating system, a social one. you can save people you often read as icons on your desktop, arrange your space however you want, save casts, create folders, use them as bookmarks, maps, collections, whatever. this is the direction i'm aiming for: a social filesystem, kinda. i have many ideas i was thinking about during development, and i'm keeping them in my pocket for later. i'll polish this space gradually, because i'm literally the first user. i'll also start moving and upgrading Pet Rock Life there over time, although there are no embedded wallets or miniapps in 37 yet. the main energy is coziness, true connections, and being anti-corpo. it's an indie project.

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YES!!!!! THE FIRST OPERATOR OF 37 HAS ARRIVED

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just to feel something

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37 demo 🪨

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i will upload the full demo of 37 tomorrow. the current version was built in a week. the entire backend runs in a single Lua file with <300 lines of code. Pet Rock Life is merging into 37 and i plan to continue the multiplayer direction, while experimenting with new social primitives. i'm trying to explore a new medium. $ROCK token is already integrated at the runtime level (not public yet). ROCK also now covers a large part of the Farcaster API -> you can build a client on top of it. so yeah, we'll see how it goes. and thank you everyone who supports me.

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37 will be available on desktops only for now. If there’s enough demand, I’ll consider releasing a phone app too. 37 also has a live chat (Club), where everyone can leave messages about features they’d like to see or simply hang out together. I’m really excited to sail another Farcaster client into the sea. Ideally, I don’t want to stop at basic client features and instead focus on completely new primitives that can bring new people into the protocol from outside Farcaster.

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37 will launch in beta in a few days. Batch 1 will have room for 37 operators. 13 seats are already reserved for those who replied to the announcement cast. 24 more seats will open for $ROCK holders, first come first served.

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random pet rock life dump

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join me in Pet Rock life if you wanna chat idk

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i desperately need new lenses for Farcaster. i'll try my best to release the first version this week and send invites to everyone who replied. keep in mind tho -> it won't be all-inclusive from day one. i started a few days ago... but i'm chronically online and i'm the first cat living inside this client, and i want it to look and feel exactly the way i imagine it. it's like indie games, but for the client. an indie client!! things may break or your browser tab might even explode..? i also plan to add perks for $ROCK holders (yup, finally we're moving somewhere). what an epic alpha!! Anyway love u and see u in @37rocks soon yeah

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i increased ROCK's Farcaster (Neynar) API coverage. coming in v0.2.13. signer management, cast creation, likes, and follows in 16 LoC: https://gist.github.com/sunsetlover36/228e387bb335c6038f3ea973fdd1efd5 Yeah, this is kinda cool! let's see where it lands

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Attention dear Villagers!! new client who dis? i'm building a farcaster client. we need more diversity here! first shaped version coming in May. reply if you want to explore the vision! i want to bring back that feeling when everyone was making clients, weird experiments, new surfaces. let's embrace it! feels like i've been dreaming about my own client for almost a year lol. built on ROCK tech. never been easier to create something on farcaster than with some rocks.