Episode Details

Silence, Bots, Base, Builders and the 37 People Still Having Fun: GM Farcaster ep330 Friday January 16, 2026

TLDR: 🤫 Founders are quiet →timeline panics, but silence ≠ death 📈 Protocol usage is up (yes, even if some of it is bots)🧑‍💻 Builders keep shipping: new clients, mini apps, and features everywhere🤖 Bot replies + Base farmers are annoying real users🛠️ Solution: switch clients, curate harder, stop doom-posting🧘‍♀️ Final verdict: calm down, take off the tinfoil hat, Farcaster is weird—not dead

From our ChatGPT Intern: Farcaster is “dead,” except everyone is still building, onboarding hundreds of thousands of accounts, launching new clients and mini apps, and yelling at each other to calm down while absolutely not calming down. The episode is basically Mom Energy telling the timeline to stop doom-spiraling, try a different client,ignore the bots, and remember that a weird, quiet, slightly chaotic Farcaster is still very much alive

Show Notes and Links – some of the casts & stuff we talked about:  

FC NEWS

Keep Calm and Carry On:

https://farcaster.xyz/nounishprof/0xb6a82c29

please stop.

https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0x550f8375

UNO mini:

https://farcaster.xyz/christopher/0x026df7da

https://farcaster.xyz/pfista/0x7a7a7e36

bring back thetrending tab:

https://farcaster.xyz/trizsamae/0x7b27b1dc

FC protocol andclient metrics:

https://farcaster.xyz/jonathancolton/0x75b5cf33

https://farcaster.xyz/ferran/0x9c3ba11c

anyone got a $billylying around?

https://farcaster.xyz/dawufi/0x572f2d4e

FC with early FBvibes:

https://farcaster.xyz/m00npapi.eth/0x5c290a0b

creator coin FUDcounter-signal?

https://farcaster.xyz/v/0xde56e3db

Nikita kills slopfi ripyaps:

https://farcaster.xyz/nickysap/0xb1448d38

https://farcaster.xyz/sahil/0x91aa8a45

https://farcaster.xyz/kenny/0x65f5fc40

https://farcaster.xyz/chaskin.eth/0xc13cf50c

https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x964c8217

BASE

Base App pivot:

https://farcaster.xyz/jesse.base.eth/0x1c6e877b

Pumpfun with … waitfor it…social:

https://farcaster.xyz/nickysap/0xbe891ed4

BUILDERS BUILDING

$habs engagementrewards with Quotient:

https://farcaster.xyz/purp/0x56a9b033

Bracky Pregame:

https://farcaster.xyz/bracky/0x575ed18c

PrivyHome IRL:

https://farcaster.xyz/debbie/0xb2a1c5a7

Walletbeat and thewalkaway test:

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