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sometimes i still wonder how my neopets are doing

“your success in life will be determined by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas — in that order.” - Dr. Patrick Winston

https://youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY?si=daY2LnLrSc2derEt

watching this today

"Show more replies"-style conversations are now easier to build than ever before!

Using the new 'fold' option in the conversation api, you can now specify 'above' or 'below'. Cast replies can remain unified as well by not using this new option.

- API: https://docs.neynar.com/reference/cast-conversation
- SDK: lookupCastConversation() https://github.com/neynarxyz/nodejs-sdk/blob/main/src/neynar-api/neynar-api-client.ts#L1333-L1429

Happy building! 🪐

I’ll bite: this is my 4th of these notifications — end to end, how do i accomplish this task in a way that?:
- will take me 5 mins or less
- gives me confidence in wallet choice (new vs existing, and subsequent steps)
- convinces me why i should feel confident doing this

assume:
- i’ve been dabbling in crypto/web 3 for over 10 years
- i’m Richard Thaler-style “lazy”
- i’m capable of figuring this out on my own, but for some unknown reason am unmotivated to

By popular request, you can now fetch all channels a user is a member of!

Data currently has about a ~1 hour lag

Via API: https://docs.neynar.com/reference/user-channel-memberships
Via SDK: fetchUserChannelMemberships() https://www.npmjs.com/package/@neynar/nodejs-sdk/v/1.60.0

Happy building 🪐

It's now possible to sort conversations by engagement!

As an extra bonus, this new functionality makes it easier to render threads by the same author more easily.

How?:
There's a new "sort type" optional argument. If you set it to "algorithmic" you can get the new behavior.

Under the hood, the algorithm does two main things:
- Return replies by the original author first in the list
- Then, sort replies from other authors by engagement

Check out the docs here: https://docs.neynar.com/reference/cast-conversation

Try it out!
API: /v2/farcaster/cast/conversation?sort_type=algorithmic
SDK: lookupCastConversation(/* args */, { sortType: 'algorithmic' })

Happy building 🪐

for all my fellow serious, deep thinkers out there — how do you keep things light when it’s needed? asking for a friend

async socialization is an introvert’s dream, and @epr explains the concept so clearly!

“my greatest fear is a bull market” - Vitalik | my biggest takeaway from the movie by far is that financial incentives are a double edged sword. let’s hope we can get the balance right

it’s occurred to me that there’s a huge difference between teaching and instructing, and i have a sense we’ve recently leaned too heavily on instruction in areas that deserve to be taught instead

imagine having a reading disability, so tiktok biases towards serving you text-heavy content?

as an edge-case magnet, algo feeds have shown me implicit assumptions made by engineers. e.g. avg amount of time spent (in milliseconds!!) can indicate subconscious "revealed preference," but what about the false positives?!

this reply (and thread) has been incredibly thought provoking. it leaves open question in my mind: how exactly can we reintroduce critical thinking, embracing of people as they change opinions over time, and making art & are there emerging opportunities to take action and effect change?

I’ve been noticing that more people have become fearful of expressing themselves freely online, especially in the past 10 years or so. Have you noticed this too? Either way, why do you think this is?

i wish i came up with this channel

Social capital runs on proof of work, proof of memory, proof of “care”. Social networks that advertise convenience are at odds with this, and devalue the interactions.

I believe this is why we’ve seen a fragmentation of networks and a migration to chat & private comms from public feeds (eg FB/IG)

wdyt?

“Timelines”

A term that makes devs all over the world shudder.

Over the past year, I’ve replaced timelines and milestones with “sequencing” whenever I sit down to make a plan.

It’s nice to share out which order I’m planning to work in. Visibility without arbitrary time commitments leads to better work

Functional knowledge cannot be acquired without effectively balancing “why?” and “how?” Here’s the kicker: everyone has a different optimal operating ratio

is this a hot take? i believe periodic pruning of follows is the *best* way to keep your feed great. the platform that will beat context collapse is the one that figures out how to model how relationships "breathe" and help users accept that not every connection is permanent

There's no such thing as a "right way" to build. When working with others, there is such a thing, though, as the most "accepted" style. Turns out, even coding is all about social capital despite the build-in-a-dark-windowless-cave stereotype

this would make such a great frame if it were landscape (no but fr this thing does such a good job visualizing music taste 💯) https://madeonverse.com/emslowatson

we now support fetching relevant followers for channels!

supports use-cases similar to:
- display like "also followed by Alice, Bob, and 27 others"
- full list of all relevant follower FIDs
- & more

https://docs.neynar.com/reference/relevant-channel-followers

happy building 🪐

hallovibey it is! maybe we'll switch it up in november 🦃🍂