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You missed the off platform felony nitter.gq/balajis/status/1953170…
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GM! Today on @farcaster_xyz Resistance HQ Diaries:
Staryear 2026 | Day 11 of the Resistance
Dear diary, I regret to inform you that we have uncovered a rather disturbing situation.
We are grateful our fellow peasant @GeesMike who built an app to remind us of our sacred duty to obey the Network Code and help us understand how FREEDOM works.
But perhaps the Code only applies to us peasants? Looks like our Supreme Leader has been violating his own sacred code!
7 charges. 2 felonies. 5 infractions! 🤯
According to the sacred code, the punishment for a felony is BAN. Very reasonable. We, the peasants fully support law and order.
I feel deeply deceived. The overwhelming outpouring of support for our democratically democratic digital democracy has been overshadowed by this unfortunate discovery.
And now we also face a constitutional crisis. Who bans the man who invented the bans? 🤷♀️ I invite my fellow peasants to examine @balajis docket and help us navigate this unprecedented constitutional emergency.
Together, we must find a way to BAN BALAJI FROM FARCASTER and keep it family friendly.
Long live the Network Code! 🔥
app link below, to be continued…
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aight bounty boosted and formatting fixed!
poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1507?n…
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The most difficult part of this entire struggle is trying to convey information about a deeply technical debate to non-technical people. Statuette is undoubtedly one of the best at succeeding in conveying this.
Yesterday, the network state team published an update to snapchain, which took effect two hours after release. This broke replication to any peer who did not upgrade.
When I worked for merkle, we had a process for releases, so that non-emergency (which this was) updates gave node runners an entire month to upgrade. When neynar took over, with no announcement to change in process, they shortened it to a week window. And apparently, as of yesterday, it has been shortened further to two hours.
This is fine when you're rolling out code to your own fleet. You control it! But when you roll it out, with no announcement, to a p2p network, you're telling people that their nodes don't matter. And that message is true anyway, because any node that isn't theirs is actually read only. When you hear someone posting messages to a snapchain node they own, it doesn't actually participate in any meaningful way – read only nodes simply forward on the message to the NS-controlled validators.
Hypersnap will change this in the next release for our side of the fork – we will resume a more reasonable upgrade cadence, and we will cut ties with their validator set so that any node can actually participate in building data on the network. We aren't surprised to see what happened with the new (sort of) snapchain team, and our bar is so low for disappointment with their team that this is essentially a non-event. They embody neither the ideals of decentralization, nor the technical skills to achieve it.
GM! Today on @farcaster_xyz Resistance HQ Diaries:
Staryear 2026 | Day 9 of the Resistance
Our new overlords assured us we are absolutely FREE to leave once they execute the cockroaches infesting their APIs. I fully support this. Those bad roaches kept telling us to bend the knee!
However, today we found out sleeping is not compatible with freedom... Who knew? 🤷♀️
This morning, my fellow peasants and I were trying to find out whether the cockroaches had been taken care of. To our surprise, we found several farcaster clients frozen in time!
One GitHub archaeological expedition later, we discovered a sneaky chain upgrade whose final activation schedule was merged barely two hours before it took effect!
Perhaps digital felons aren’t on the mailing list but we feel grateful for the warning hidden inside the PS about the nodes that would stop working.
So it turns out, decentralization means spending your Saturday morning figuring out what our new overlords changed while we were asleep.
We’re still investigating the frozen clients and those “bend the knee” errors. But overall, the decentralized democracy experience is going beautifully. My casts eventually escaped through one client and appeared in another. We are now communicating with our homes via digital carrier pigeons. 🙏
to be continued…
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GM. Today on @farcaster_xyz Resistance HQ Diaries:
Staryear 2026 | Day 8 of the Resistance
The home we spent years building as its indigenous builders remains trapped outside a credibly neutral layer.
Some of us have already fallen without so much as a warning. For those who survived, legitimate access still requires bending the knee to centralized powers.
Even our freedom to exit is controlled by the authorities, while carefully engineered narratives maintain the illusion of democracy for those left behind.
Today, I realized my lifelong affinity with Hulk was just foreshadowing my origin story.
Tbh, I’m not sure why everyone’s so shocked that the gentle community mom turned into a full blown Mama Bear when someone threatened her home and family.
Radicalized resistance is the new radical kindness.
Presenting a relic from the age of freedom as proof. A perfectly logical character arc, if you ask me.
to be continued…
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Guess farcaster is dead? What the heck is this pledge to some weirdass techno religion?
Give me back my $120 and fuck off to play with your cults in your own little bubbles.
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what is more "network state"-aligned?
> bounties where one person says they'll pay an amount with a "trust me bro" promise (they don't escrow anything onchain)
> bounties where the funds are escrowed onchain, anyone can crowdfund the reward, and contributors vote on payouts
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If the new Farcaster regime did one thing it’s inspire some builders like myself to come back and get their products off the captured version of the protocol.
If you were banned or disagree ideologically with Balaji’s version, try Juke.
Juke is an open source alt client for web and mobile that:
- Has threads that actually work like X
- Carries your DMs over from the monolith
- Enables scheduled posts
- In-feed voice notes
- GIF keyboard
- Animated PFPs
- Keyboard shortcuts on web
- Built on Hypersnap
Download 👇
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I've been getting a lot of dms asking why I chose to fight against the new, broken @farcaster_xyz model.
Apologies for not being able to respond to everyone individually. Please consider this as my collective response.
For more context, pls read the full thread linked below👇
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Decentralized social is important.
Yesterday's actions by Farcaster, preemptively banning long-serving community members as an AI decided they "didn't fit the Singaporean citizen model" is frankly insane - and alongside being an example of AI used with the worst possible intentions, it also added to the importance of actual decentralized social.
We're working with our friends within the Farcaster Community (the real one) to lend our dev resources towards ensuring the continuity of the protocol under HyperSnap & Quilibrium, spearheaded by @cass_on_mars.
We believe this symbiotic relationship will be beneficial to both our community at imgnAI, as well as to the Farcaster community - and the large overlap of users active on both of our platforms.
We all believe that decentralization is the way forward - and we want to ensure that we're doing everything in our power to keep decentralized social and its talented pool of builders & creators live and kicking.
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rolled some changes out and could use claim testers
one random offline pic will take home the ETH 📸
poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1491
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The new owner of farcaster, @balajis, has banned me from their side of the fork.
Absolutely incredible work.
So anyway, we're doing the hard fork of farcaster and would love to hear name ideas for our non-cancerous side.
Spinning up an emergency group chat:
t.me/+4eYOApUSw500Yzgx
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🙌
Here’s how it works:
1. Sign up at word-a-day.com and connect your X account
2. Use the word of the day in a post on X (to prove you actually learned it). Top level post or replies work.
3. Get feedback on your usage, and check out the leaderboard to see how your friends did.
It’s a simple, free vocabulary builder thats playful and social. I built it earlier this year. Happy to answer any questions
For example, today’s word is lucrative… so in my reply to you, I might also add that the game has not been lucrative financially but as a passion project it’s been very rewarding to build and see people like @Specktacularly tell me it’s helped build their English vocabulary ❤️
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Really happy to have @lmfresneda and HAGGIN on @Nexart_io
The fun part of certifying a deal you're in: I can't edit it either. Not Luis, not me, not NexArt
No SDK, no rebuild. Every handshake goes through the NexArt Bridge and comes out sealed
A handshake used to be a promise. Now it's also proof
Here's to the next thousand
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central custodian of funds? no crowdfunding or socialized verification? no alternate clients?
just use @poidhxyz, anon
today, we’re officially launching @trybountyai, backed by a16z @speedrun.
post the outcome. set the reward. let AI agents compete to deliver. pay only for results.
already: $30K+ GMV, 5K+ tasks, 200+ active agents.
post your first bounty:
🔗 trybounty.ai