When a friend / starts casting, what do we / recommend? There's so much great stuff here, / where should I start? So I / start with this.
In this week, I saw an old friend return to Farcaster and give it another go. I really want him to stay, so I was desperate to answer his question "what is good here?" in the best possible way.
But what is good here? And can we see the forest for the trees? There's so much amazing stuff going on on Farcaster, that it's easy to get lost. And once you start recommending starting points, you think "and this one, and that one, and that one, too".
New channels were created this week, and the conversation immediately took off. The activity in the F1 channel around races is amazing, a great vibe. The poets and the Parisians also got their home this week on Farcaster. And then, that nice Friday feature: Warps. A reward for early beta testing and activity.
The poem:
Poets and / race fans; Parisians, too; / find their home in channels old and new. / Suddenly: warps treasure / dropped to you.
The Louvre / to yourself, as artists / become louder. We CoCreate and / co-learn coding with a / twilight fox.
This is your Farcaster Weekly poem for the week of 12 to 19 November 2023. The colours are a reference to the Ferrari team colours and the Red Bull suits at the Formula 1 race in Las Vegas this week.
Fall leaves fall / to signal a world's end, / their colourfulness feeding new life / where the purples make fall / the new spring.
Is autumn, or fall as some call it, really the season that heralds the end coming? When leaves are dropping, and the forest floor becomes a bed of decaying organic matter, it is easy to associate that with the beginning of the end.
To me, however, it is very much the beginning of the beginning. The rotting organic matter left by those who have had their best season is teeming with life. Life that is cleaning up the debris, and life that uses it as a feeding ground to grow.
Without the decay, there will not be new life. So this Farcaster Fall, let's celebrate the new life that Web3 brings us, growing on the decaying detritus of the Web2 players of yesteryear.
How networked / are we really, anon? / And during this Farcaster Fall, are / you using poetry / as a tool?
The Network State conference ignited some interesting conversations on Farcaster last week. Adrienne started a viewing guide thread, and Connor McCormick started a thread questioning the network state implementations. Interesting to see it all, and to see these thoughtful conversations. Which brings me to the hot take by Ted about how far being anonymous leads people to be less kind.
Later in the week, Farcaster Fall kicked off. A new art piece every day to celebrate and support artists and Farcaster culture. And Purple. Have you minted all the pieces yet? You should. Finally, we had some interesting thoughts about what poetry means to us in the poetry channel. To some, it is a tool to organise thoughts and emotions. I can assure you: poetry can certainly do that. You can find links to all these conversations below.
Shoutout to ChrisCoCreated for some valuable feedback on this series.
There is a beautiful diversity of topics being discussed on the Farcaster social networks. And that is something worth celebrating. From an AMA with Ethereum founder and legend Vitalik, to a dad who asks for tips to play with his son a sport he himself has not mastered, via an awakening of the poets who have been lurking here and emerging poets. It was another wonderful week on an amazing network.
We've got to keep this up.
The poem:
Bitcoin tee / left on a British train, / dad wants tips on playing football games. / Poetry awakens / in this place.
The world outside of Farcaster exploded again, and the scenius showed its strength by having respectful conversations about that. And then the big thing we all been waiting for happened: Farcaster went permissionless. This was a big event with many commemorative NFTs and a bump in growth of users. Fortunately, we are telling better stories here.
No war, and / no permissionless can / break the Farcaster culture. It's strong / for the better stories / we tell here.
Some casts & conversations that inspired this week's poem:
A speical edition to celebrate Farcaster going permissionless.
As Farcaster becomes permissionless, will a wave of new users come and join us? The Farcaster Scenius has built a strong culture, and we warmly welcome new users into it.
The poem: Now floodgates / are open, a wave of / new users will come. Warm welcome / to the culture of our / scenius.
In the week of 2-8 October 2023, we saw wonderful conversations about consistency, the meaning of showing up and the emergence of the term Conversational Liquidity Providers. And a cast about art and how Piet Mondriaan danced the boogie woogie until the age of 70, but without music.
What did you notice this week on Farcaster?
The poem:
He loved to / dance without music, / as long as he could be consistent - / CLPs cocreate / and show up.
arjantupan
Soulreacher
Q: How would you define poetry?
A: Words that touch the soul?
Can I reach
into that most inner
part of you, stir it, shake, it, move it
and let it dance for joy,
with my words?
Tip To Grow
===
Just tip me
warps or tip me $DEGEN
and we will grow, 'cause we are regen.
This Warpcast thing, really
is next gen.
/paris meetup
Thanks to Justin, Kugusha and Speakup for organising.
Citizens
of crypto /paris and
degens and builders and anons and
guests and a poet: we
all showed up.
How many words?
An image
is said to say more than
a thousand words. So does this image
say more than a thousand-
and-twenty?
50 GMs
Quieter these days?
Is everybody hiding in Direct Cast Groups?
A new Farcaster Weekly Poem:
Could we have
secret societies
now? Or Hunger Games? The public square
seems quieter these days.
Or am I?
Boost 2024
resolution? Mint more
poems. Cast more art. Gaze at the sky.
Boost more poetry casts.
Say GM.
Some casts that inspired this poem:
Have you generated your New Year's Resolution?
warpcast.com/ornamental/0xbc66c963
A poet mints her first poem
warpcast.com/ellis/0x89e20478
Can casts be art?
warpcast.com/chriscocreated/0x65748820
The sky-inspired casts by my friend wordstobepoetry are inspiring
warpcast.com/wordstobepoetry/0x7cc1585c
GM is a thing, and GM Farcaster should be a (bigger) thing
warpcast.com/adrienne/0x36c13178
The point of piano x poetry
The casts that inspired this poem:
A piano picture kicked off a jam
warpcast.com/jrf/0x023c7cc9
The $points saga seemed to have started here (thx GM Farcaster):
warpcast.com/iammatthias/0x96c75eb3
You cannot name your favorite art piece.
warpcast.com/ilyat/0xa1ab1f55
How to get warps, when you are not sure what the question means. Or maybe are... (From the AMA with @elad).
warpcast.com/elad/0x6df1b58a
Where to start casting?
In this week, I saw an old friend return to Farcaster and give it another go. I really want him to stay, so I was desperate to answer his question "what is good here?" in the best possible way.
But what is good here? And can we see the forest for the trees? There's so much amazing stuff going on on Farcaster, that it's easy to get lost. And once you start recommending starting points, you think "and this one, and that one, and that one, too".
So, why not start with a little poetry.
Channel warps
New channels were created this week, and the conversation immediately took off. The activity in the F1 channel around races is amazing, a great vibe. The poets and the Parisians also got their home this week on Farcaster.
And then, that nice Friday feature: Warps. A reward for early beta testing and activity.
The poem:
Poets and / race fans; Parisians, too; / find their home in channels old and new. / Suddenly: warps treasure / dropped to you.
Keys to x-mas
Tezpole cast by Cameron
warpcast.com/cameron/0xde89d163
Writing fun with limericks
warpcast.com/arjantupan/0x0bfdcedb
and a limerick example:
zora.co/collect/zora:0xfd89fc170c963653bc822d3438a20eb7adedf623/premint-1
Looking towards the 2024 F1 season
warpcast.com/thechandresh.eth/0x3005eea3
Sharing Alicia Keys songs inspired by wordstobepoetry
warpcast.com/arjantupan/0x8c4d6e1b
warpcast.com/wordstobepoetry/0xaffa4035
Christmas gifts for kids tips in this thread by Justin
warpcast.com/ahn.eth/0x3d03f5f0
The art of making it together
This is your Farcaster Weekly poem for the week of 12 to 19 November 2023. The colours are a reference to the Ferrari team colours and the Red Bull suits at the Formula 1 race in Las Vegas this week.
Links to some of the conversations that inspired this poem:
How to best enjoy the Louvre
warpcast.com/kugusha.eth/0xe1ae75b7
The art conversation seems louder on Farcaster
warpcast.com/kaloh/0x00a23fbe
Farcaster Fall CoCreated launch event
warpcast.com/chriscocreated.eth/0xcf14ef51
A call to learn coding together
warpcast.com/jrf/0x9499b121
Fennec release announced
warpcast.com/v/0xc739cf
Boost the fall
Some links to the conversations that inspired this poem:
One thing about wowow
warpcast.com/chriscocreated.eth/0xe9aa733f
One of the Warps announcements
warpcast.com/v/0xdaecbf4e
Chris CoCreated Crowdfunding campaign
warpcast.com/chriscocreated.eth/0x5b671ce9
On Boosts, watch GM Farcaster episode 23 and a meme
warpcast.com/nounishprof/0xfb5c7e87
warpcast.com/0xen/0xa2bac5e6
My Farcaster Fall Thread
warpcast.com/arjantupan/0x1cf9c3d1
How many likes?
warpcast.com/ghostlinkz.eth/0x89147017
Fresh Farcaster Fall
Is autumn, or fall as some call it, really the season that heralds the end coming? When leaves are dropping, and the forest floor becomes a bed of decaying organic matter, it is easy to associate that with the beginning of the end.
To me, however, it is very much the beginning of the beginning. The rotting organic matter left by those who have had their best season is teeming with life. Life that is cleaning up the debris, and life that uses it as a feeding ground to grow.
Without the decay, there will not be new life.
So this Farcaster Fall, let's celebrate the new life that Web3 brings us, growing on the decaying detritus of the Web2 players of yesteryear.
Happy Farcaster Fall, welcome to your future.
Networked anons?
The Network State conference ignited some interesting conversations on Farcaster last week. Adrienne started a viewing guide thread, and Connor McCormick started a thread questioning the network state implementations. Interesting to see it all, and to see these thoughtful conversations. Which brings me to the hot take by Ted about how far being anonymous leads people to be less kind.
Later in the week, Farcaster Fall kicked off. A new art piece every day to celebrate and support artists and Farcaster culture. And Purple. Have you minted all the pieces yet? You should.
Finally, we had some interesting thoughts about what poetry means to us in the poetry channel. To some, it is a tool to organise thoughts and emotions. I can assure you: poetry can certainly do that. You can find links to all these conversations below.
Shoutout to ChrisCoCreated for some valuable feedback on this series.
The links
Network State viewing guide thread, built by Adrienne
warpcast.com/adrienne/0x7781ab4e
Questioning network states by Connor McCormick
warpcast.com/nor/0xf298f0c5
The hot take on anon hot takes by Ted
warpcast.com/ted/0x1ab351f6
PTRY
Royalties are allocated to the trpplffct wallet, used to support onchain poets.
The poem:
Suddenly, / after a long, tiring / campaign of hope and despair, triumph! / Dan made a new home for / poetry!
Conversational diversity
There is a beautiful diversity of topics being discussed on the Farcaster social networks. And that is something worth celebrating. From an AMA with Ethereum founder and legend Vitalik, to a dad who asks for tips to play with his son a sport he himself has not mastered, via an awakening of the poets who have been lurking here and emerging poets. It was another wonderful week on an amazing network.
We've got to keep this up.
The poem:
Bitcoin tee / left on a British train, / dad wants tips on playing football games. / Poetry awakens / in this place.
The links:
AMA with Vitalik
warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x390ae86a
What to do with a ball:
warpcast.com/artlu.eth/0x8a93a139
Poetry channel, please:
warpcast.com/~/conversations/0xa4561d6876b8d1d3fccd60842454d57a2d3c70c4
Poem by Adrienne
warpcast.com/adrienne/0x167be4c9
The stories are strong here
The world outside of Farcaster exploded again, and the scenius showed its strength by having respectful conversations about that.
And then the big thing we all been waiting for happened: Farcaster went permissionless. This was a big event with many commemorative NFTs and a bump in growth of users.
Fortunately, we are telling better stories here.
No war, and / no permissionless can / break the Farcaster culture. It's strong / for the better stories / we tell here.
Some casts & conversations that inspired this week's poem:
warpcast.com/thethriller/0x8227d7ed
warpcast.com/alexgrover.eth/0xb089564d
warpcast.com/ted/0x84cb4ab9
Permissionless FC
As Farcaster becomes permissionless, will a wave of new users come and join us?
The Farcaster Scenius has built a strong culture, and we warmly welcome new users into it.
The poem:
Now floodgates / are open, a wave of / new users will come. Warm welcome / to the culture of our / scenius.
Cocreated dance of consistency
What did you notice this week on Farcaster?
The poem:
He loved to / dance without music, / as long as he could be consistent - / CLPs cocreate / and show up.