justin.ahn.eth on Warpcast

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some takeaways from talking with farcasters irl in /paris yesterday: - in total 11 people showed up (2 directly from the airport!), engaged users are motivated to connect irl - everyone looking for alpha (stated preference as joke, revealed preference seriously); a lot of degen, defi and clanker talk - from content creator pov, goal is audience growth, and warpcast/farcaster/web3 tools in general do not provide enough analytics atm to achieve this - my 3rd year hosting a meetup, first time hearing people express not 100% positive sentiment, mainly on concerns of user growth, lack of client diversity and difficulty for new accounts to break through

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I think it is indeed very difficult for new accounts bc their casts are usually hidden. And many times people don’t spend the time with them. There should be some incentive for new accounts. Maybe a tab with casts posted only by new accounts?

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Great idea, I was one of those users and while I joined FC in February last year, I started using it just two months ago when a friend introduced me to the community. I think new users need a lot of encouragement and very important for growth of the network

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Yes, it takes time, patience and consistency to build a circle here. But with time, it starts to get easier. There are a lot of nice people around.

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it's certainly a challenge and discoverability of users & content is important to grow any social network but i think it's also a two-way street as it seems many users think simply casting content should be enough to grow an audience here, which isn't the case on any other platform fwiw, i think your response is one of the better ways to grow here, find people that resonate with you and try to engage authentically with them to increase your distribution

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What I also found useful small interviews, and introducing each other helps. Web2 is much more transparent whereas here because of the crypto jargon, fast pace of AI merging, nft and indeed prevailing developers language, it could be tough finding way around and even finding people. Channels though are brilliant although there also it takes time

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that seems to be what people who've established audiences on popular Web 2.0 platforms feel, the metrics and strategies are pretty clear, whereas here it's still very much a black box!

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I just wonder if each of us had an AI agent that can be searching the network all day long for people that are similar or post about similar topics. I know that algorithm does it’s job but if we could individually have some more control over it, just dreaming here, have no technical knowledge

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conceptually that should be on the client sides to decide what their respective algorithms and or user bases can prioritize for their specific niche however as warpcast is pretty much the only game in town at the moment, we are at the mercy of merkle! 🫠

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