mikegees retweeted
You missed the off platform felony xitter.cf/balajis/status/1953170…
Peasant @GeesMike reporting for duty 🫡
The Network Code applies to ALL of us. Even the Supreme ones.
Felony = BAN. Very reasonable. I simply built the docket.
@balajis your digital felonies are waiting for you. More evidence soon… 👀
charge-sheet-two.vercel.app/…
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…
mikegees retweeted
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…
mikegees retweeted
aight bounty boosted and formatting fixed!
poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1507?n…
check out this bounty from @geesmike on @poidhxyz 📸
sorry @kennyistyping 😏
poidh.xyz/base/bounty/1507?i…
mikegees retweeted
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…
mikegees retweeted
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…
