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People don’t want to see uninteresting replies and casts.

Best way to solve for that is weight historical inbound engagement for a user, i.e. PageRank-like score for every user.

Disproportionally hurts new accounts. Making it harder to get started.

maybe this could be counterbalanced by an algo boost for new accounts with interesting casts?

How do you know what new casts are interesting before they have engagement?

Maybe they get a grace period or for like first 20 casts/replies? Uninteresting content can be detected with that sample size I think 🤔

building /chaincade /xd | memes are on hiatus

Some of my friends tried to get started on here when I was constantly giving positive feedback about farcaster, but they and I have had completely different experience, even I on my first try here felt like I was being ghosted collectively, I stopped using as I felt maybe I didn't belong.

I think you're underestimating people's hospitality tbh, if I'm scrolling through my feed and once a day I see a cast with two buttons at the bottom like, do you like it? Yes or no, I'll be fine and infact excited to rate a new user with good content. New users should feel welcomed, makes them really stick around.

reply guys

But on my second time here, I got into channels like /replyguys and that got me talking with some people, and now I don't ever wanna go on any other sm, I think the culture here is extremely positive, but new users have a hard time getting started, unless if they come with existing following from X or so.

The existing user still gets annoyed though.

What if the person has three followers early on. I think the grace period should be a bit longer - 30 days seems reasonable or 200 casts. Otherwise too much pressure on every cast - people (like me) will overthink to cast or not to cast and won’t cast at all. Gotta entice them early on!