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Noticing some of the people on Twitter with big audiences who onboarded early to Farcaster and churned spending more time here. 

Still not casting a ton, but lurking, liking, etc.

(Not crypto people, either.)

Targeting is my growth problem on every platform.

I am not one content vertical. I’m one-hundred. Random segments of these will surface on any feed-based platform, each a non-sequitur to the last. 

This creates a revolving door where alienation and attraction reach equilibrium and growth stops.

The range of interests following me becomes so wide that I am held hostage and only post the most broadly-appealing or likely-viral content.

It’s not impossible for today’s machine-learning social media recommendation engines to facilitate more cosmopolitan followings, but it’s too resource intensive. These engines want to maximize user behavior KPIs with minimum CPU usage, which forcing followings into single content verticals facilitates.

Humanity is the dog being wagged by the resource-minimizing-machine-learning-recommendation-engine tail. I’m just not that type of dog.

Chocolate rainmaker. Singer. Thinker. Voice

out of curiosity, who are you trying (or forced to try) to target? 

my #1 gripe with current social is that they force you to niche down until you're so specific to a certain group that it is hard to expand naturally. seems like your audience has a range of interests so maybe you don't have that issue / experience?

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Farcaster has allowed me to expand my taste. And I’m very thankful.

builder, millennial by age, boomer at heart, chin coat rack

I attribute a fair amount of this to being part of an early social network, even though I'm probably still among the outer circle of folks here in terms of standing.

The content here is far more organized than other social platforms I have been on and of seemingly higher quality. Once a social platform reaches a planetary-scale audience, then it becomes littered with nonsense, spam, bots, irrelevant content, porn, etc. It also becomes difficult to manage and turns into a firehose. Twitter/Facebook are good examples of this.

The atmosphere is also that of new territory, so many people are exploring in the same way. That also means I'm exploring and diving into subject matter that would normally not be exposed to me but because I'm invested in the platform, I engage with the content. And I grow to appreciate it far more.

Farcaster runs the same risk of becoming a dumping ground for nonsense. It isn't necessarily inevitable though. But that's why I preface this with it's likely a function of its nascency.