Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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.
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chillyazz.base.eth🎩
@chillyazz.eth
Let’s say casting to channels doesn’t give you boosted distribution, but what if most users used to scroll more channel feed than their home feed. Isn't this a contradiction? Is there a scenario that specific no_channel cast of user A is “programmed” to appear in home feed of user B, but user B doesn’t scroll home feed and goes directly to channels to read casts so this cast doesn’t appear?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Very few users scrolled channel pages. One of the challenges with the old model. Most channel pages / feeds were not curated and not very good.
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