They caught my eye today.  There were more but I liked these ones best.

Manga Anime 🍥

Kaiju No. 8 was one of the best, fast-paced, touching, heart-beating manga of recent years.

Toronto

Toronto from the developing portlands.

It was windy AF

The subscript is such a questionable design decision.  What is it supposed to mean?

I assume something like price changing but it never changes even when I leave and come back.

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antimeme

i said it would be coming soon..
it still is..

eternal memory hole summer:
the experience..
https://rodeo.club/post/0x7526B49eddD584b0f9d13F0C33cac38bcCeeB222/20

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Evangelism > Sugar Coating

I'm honestly not convinced we're going to bring the next bazillion people onchain by sugar coating crypto 

Yes we need to improve the UX 
Yes we need to make it safer 

But are we making users more free? 

What if the best way to onboard someone is to explain why you go into crypto? 

I worked in a customer service call center at a local bank for 4 years. One of our biggest sources of income? Fees. Users who didn't want their card charges declined could opt into a system that let them go into the negative by an amount determined by their risk factor. For some it would just be $500 because their deposits were low, for others it was $2000. Every time they went into the negative they paid the bank $35. 

This safety net became a crutch. People living on the poverty line would develop a pattern of getting a deposit, going into the negative, and then the next deposit would cover the the negative balance, and if their coverage algo would allow it they would go back into the negative for X amount. That was the big "if". I can't tell you the number of old widows and single mothers who would start crying because their coverage wasn't the same amount it had been for months, and now they had no idea how they would afford food or their electric bill. You can try to pass blame on personal responsibility or money management, but imo it was institutional and predatory for a bank to profit off that behavior. 

The truth of crypto is that it isn't "normal," it's revolutionary. Much like cryptography in the 90s it's radical. It's freedom. 

We still have a lot of work to do. While most crypto can make users more free it certainly isn't safe. I'm not at a point where I feel comfortable trying to convince a normie to get into crypto, but I will unabashedly tell them why I'm working in this space. I want people to understand that this space is more than just monkey pictures, scam tokens, and online casinos. We can do better. 

Make users more free
Make users more safe

Who copies whose homework here is Base ripping off Merkle’s ideas or is it the other way around. I don’t need to know but I am curious.

Monopoly leads to stagnation.
Competition leads to innovation.

So let’s hope we start seeing some innovation with FC clients now.

lol @grace do you want to renew your gracewar?

💭💭💭 prev @unlonely @brightmoments google & youtube | fid 1189

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daos

Recently pulled back into DAOs after rage quitting and getting that sinking feeling of disagreeing with friends.

It’s not pleasant.  It’s probably why DAOs don’t really work - the core experience is feeling gutted.

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Vote on which IRL events we should retrofund for June 2025!

Events from @cryptobaddie @reinislv and yours truly

Blockchain dev | Biotech 
Founder /cryptobaddies $CRYPTOBADDIE

Vote on which IRL events we should retrofund for June 2025!

Events from @cryptobaddie @reinislv and yours truly

https://snapshot.box/#/s:black-flag.eth/proposal/0xf5a0e89868982dc5fe059478ae582ea5059683003d1f3e634aae578fc398bd03

Yo this Typhoid Mary episode was top-notch!  What a tragic figure and also her escape chase was badass

https://youtu.be/jq-yqtIQ3y8?si=gatFTxbNp_eLK3pr

@christin

building reframescience.org neuroscience phd, chaplain, healthtech strategy consultant. co-host of the /okbanger show and vibe imagineer for /christin.

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Food

Memes

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.

Casters this summer since their engagement went down

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@erica and I use Slack. Resist the urge to add structure/SaaS unless it is absolutely critical to delivery.

Move fast, miss some things, etc.

Teams usually hire me because something’s gone wrong with their technology execution.  9 times out of 10 it’s because they’re caught up in what they “should” be doing and have lost sight of what they want to do.

Strict, unyielding processes are mid-curve. Mastery appears as formlessness.

Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

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