Stream of consciousness on channels

1. The overwhelming top complaint about the new channels is “I lost access” / “I can’t cast in the channels I used to”

2. The root of this is channels ran for a year as public topics / hashtags and we nudged people to cast in channels for a minor distribution boost.

3. When we launched channels last year, one of the fears was people wouldn’t cast in channels, since Twitter has tried versions of this and people were too used to casting on main / in the home timeline. 

4. Farcaster user behavior was more nascent / “plastic” / early adopters. So we ended up getting most people to cast in channels.

5. The other reality is most people want to maximize distribution. So telling them “channels = more distribution” is hard to unlearn, esp. if you’re more of a weekly active user.

Its not about the distribution but the mental dissonance/ change is always hard. our plasticity deteriorates as we learn our -wrapcast- habits for months.

in short, one had the mental model of casting on a channel adding a context layer to the cast. this is now gone under the new paradigm, it's hard to readjust accordingly that's all. I hope to acclimate naturally to it. and just use the /slashtag now