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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

The existing user still gets annoyed though.

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.

Cultivating a culture of welcoming new users is huge. Clubhouse did a good job with that. It helped to get going.