Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Virtually all of the people on Farcaster with large audiences: 1. Don't have large audiences elsewhere (Farcaster is their first time with a large audience) 2. Didn't know me or Varun and didn't know each other. The "Farcaster OG scene" is net new creation of Farcaster. 3. Were early and stuck around when everyone made fun of Farcaster (and people still do) 4. Continued to cast interesting stuff, casted in channels when we suggested people cast in channels 5. Warpcast onboarding asks all users for their interests 6. Based on the interests, we pair the account with an initial set of follows 7. There are 200+ accounts on the list, weighted toward accounts that get the most engagement / drive retention, but a large group of people benefit 8. On our list to improve, but the reality is outside of "I should be on the list!" haven't seen any concrete proposals to improve
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Vinay Débrou ⚙️
@vinaydebrou.eth
To be clear, I do NOT want to be on this list. If you read my grievance clearly, I am actually against the very idea of having such a arbitrary list for this core experience. Unless you want warpcast to be like a groupchat/discord server of 1000 people. This approach is a disaster at the scale beyond 1000 users. The core consumer experience turns insular.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What content do you show new users?
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
Why not decouple the follow list and initial feed content? Show them the content from the most popular / followed users, but let them follow whoever they want I think by stripping agency at the beginning, people are feeling astroturfed
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1. You have control to unfollow vs. a 100% algorithmic feed you don't? 2. An algorithmic feed optimized for new user retention would most likely increase power law nature of the network?
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
1. Ironically, there is a greater feeling of choice / agency around your graph than your feed content (since people are entrained by algo content everywhere). You could always progressively cutover from algo as they follow more people 2. Probably, but that's a better problem to have than remaining insular
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
Sorry @dwr.eth - deleted the original cast due to a grammar error. Responding here: 1. Still a problem now, except you have users that are resentful of the 50 auto-follows (you just get a false positive) 2. Should have clarified - insular and small. Insular at scale is mostly inevitable and mitigated by cozy corners
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1. It's not a set of 50. It varies based on interests. 1a. You and everyone else avoid the hard thing -- who doesn't deserve it? :) 2. We don't have enough new people signing up for this to be a priority right now. Need to focus on increasing the supply of interesting and entertaining content.
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