# 25% of My "Good" Followers are Gone

Source: https://paragraph.com/@pichi/25percent-of-my-good-followers-are-gone
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/25percent-of-My-Good-Followers-are-Gone?index=0x6850318623181d405cb82810b282a87fd46966ca9953ed203800914654babc2959211102
Submitted by misha on 2025-06-16 UTC, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

Follower counts and rewards leaderboard scores have dropped on Farcaster, which the author attributes to an aggressive spam algorithm and not to individual users being ignored or unfollowed. Users labeled as spam with a "0" label are no longer counted in follower totals or rewards, though they still follow on the protocol. The spam data set has not been updated in 11 days, so frames showing spam labels may be outdated. The author also cites home feed tweaks and money being attached to tipping apps as possible factors in lower engagement.

## Article

TL;DR; The Reaper is back with a vengeance

➼ Follower numbers going crazy, down by a lot

➼ Rewards leaderboard scores are weird (probably points being removed because people are marked as spam)

➼ Overall engagement is down/strange

➼ Much confusion and people feel down on themselves and are taking it personally. Don’t. It’s not you.

Your follower counts are going down because the spam algorithm is very aggressive this week. When someone gets labeled as spammy, aka a “0” label, the Farcaster client no longer counts them in your follower count. They are still following you and you can see it on the protocol. Use the frame linked here to see how many have been purged.

Pichi on Farcaster

Your follower counts are going down because the spam algorithm is drunk or extra salty this week. When someone gets labeled as spammy, aka a “0” label, the Farcaster client no longer counts them in your follower count. They are still following you and you can see it on the protocol. Use this frame to see how many have been purged. https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/lb-nemJj8mJO/followers

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The spam data set hasn’t been updated in 11 days. We used to get an update every week on Thursday evenings. That cadence has been inconsistent since the beginning of May. Any frames that show your spam label are 11 days out of the date. The spam algorithm runs daily and people are re-labeled. But until the json file gets updated, we can’t see your true status. We are just guessing. If you are in “show more replies” inside of a channel, you might not have a spam label. The channel might be set to prioritize members replies. If you comment on a naked cast, aka one that’s not in a channel and you are in “show more replies” you probably have a spam label.

You can check your label here.

If you have a “0” spam label, you aren’t eligible for the Rewards Leaderboard. Your engagement also doesn’t count for others. So if your points have gone down, people either deleted their replies/undid a recast/like OR They got a spam label of "0" sometime this week and their engagement no longer counts so your points went down.

Engagement is weird this week. The team is clearly tweaking the home feed algorithm and it’s starting to have effects. You can’t fight the home feed, but you can change your default feed to “following” and use that more and you can pick a few of your favorite channels and scroll them and interact to train the home feed to show you some more interesting things.

With @tipn and @noiceapp in play, some folks may be changing how they engage and liking, recasting, and commenting less or being more careful with their engagement since money in now attached. Just a theory but this could be a factor in why engagement feels different.

I don't think it's one single thing, but a multitude of factors converging all at once.

I’ve seen many casts where folks are feeling down; feeling like they aren’t doing well because the metrics they can see are down. Don’t feel bad. It’s not you. It’s just how it is this week. You aren’t being ignored or mass unfollowed. It’s not personal, it’s just the algorithm. Don’t be so hard on yourself. If you show up here often, engage with people authentically, and show us your whole self, it will work out. It might be slow. It might not be measurable today, but consistency is key.

Since engagement is down, go out of your way to engage this week.

Find one new person to follow

Scroll a few well curated channels on topics and you like and say hi to some new people

Respond to all authentic replies on your own casts

Tag a friend into a conversation they may not have seen

Use quote casts to elevate great content and share it with a new audience and add to the conversation, but be sure to give some engagement to the OC (original caster!)

Reply more if you have the time. You could make someone’s whole week

Be sure to have at least $25 in major tokens in your Farcaster wallet and do all the verifications you are comfortable doing. I don’t think the visibility changes have gone into place officially but they are coming. To be more visible you will need:

1. A good spam label (Level 2)

2. Multiple verifications

3. Money in your wallet

4. Engagement*

*engagement goes both ways. Be generous with your likes, recasts, and comments and people will engage back. And if they don't, why are you following them on a social network? Your attention is valuable!

Varun Srinivasan on Farcaster

The way visibility on Farcaster will work is a combination of these labels. To show up in replies, you will need a verification label. You can get this by connecting social accounts and holding a balance of $25. We will also add a system where users who have been active on the network for a while and have built large followings can get a verification without connecting socials (exact system tbd) Verifications will not affect your ability to earn rewards or airdrops for now. We are going to test out the proposal as it stands, and we may make some changes to the criteria depending on how easy or difficult it is for people to achieve. Your feedback as we roll this system out is always appreciated, and we'll make changes based on it.

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