The most successful part of farcaster has been channels. Then they got dropped. Why? No good answer.

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my observations only:

- messy UX with so many being created, even at $25 to rent them

- none of the moderation experiments ever felt sustainable esp big channels that invite spam

- niche channels don't grow significantly by definition

- no clear business oppty's around what had looked  initially promising 

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Still mindblowing to me why we don‘t have 5 well-modded, well-seeded top crypto Channels on farcaster for Trading, News, DeFi, NFTs, AI.

That would be the biggest reason for any crypto User to log in here and at least read passively before turning more active.

You‘re right: prev approach with 100s of channels is bad - fragmenting the few users.

But it’s literally so close to being a high-value-add for farcaster and I can’t believe they didn’t invest in modding a select few high quality channels (which get too big/spammed, lose value) - that would be the main go-to-channels here & be attractive for 24/7 Users as well as weekly lurkers.

Additionally Niche (3rd Party) Channels can grow Daily retention or become a Main factor to Login as we‘ve seen with token Communities like /degen or /higher.

Fwiw I have been logging in here for channels, never for the Mail Feed & random notifications. Miniapps are a factor too now.

I definitely see a many-cooks-in-the-kitchen aspect to it as well.

I want 1000s of channels, all wild and hairy and free-flowing like the internet. Others think we should pour focus on a handful first. But do it their way, not another way.

Personally, I don't think there were not enough shots on goal. And there can continue to be more low-key experiments

You‘re right: prev approach with 100s of channels is bad - fragmenting the few users.

But it’s literally so close to being a high-value-add for farcaster and I can’t believe they didn’t invest in modding a select few high quality channels (which get too big/spammed, lose value) - that would be the main go-to-channels here & be attractive for 24/7 Users as well as weekly lurkers.

Additionally Niche (3rd Party) Channels can grow Daily retention or become a Main factor to Login as we‘ve seen with token Communities like /degen or /higher.

Fwiw I have been logging in here for channels, never for the Mail Feed & random notifications. Miniapps are a factor too now.

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