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PSA about the new version of channels 1. They're no longer single topics / hashtags. We tried hashtags for a year and they didn't work. There's no canonical /food channel anymore. Instead, there will be many smaller groups about a topic. 2. The best way to think about the new version of channels — a text-based Twitter Space. There's a group of people (members) "on stage" who can post new stuff in the channel, and a larger group in the "audience". However, anyone in the audience can reply and get discovered / invited to the channel. We've improved how replies work (and making it easy to invite from replies) in the last 24 hours. 3. Casting in your home feed, i.e. no channel, will give you just as much distribution in the algo. We have not been boosting casts from channels you follow but people you don't follow for a while. The results were too inconsistent. 4. Our next big focus will be onboarding new users directly to channels when joining Farcaster.

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Have you ever thought about an additional meta-categorization system for channels? That could possibly make it easier to find relevant content in a group of thematically related channels? In addition to being a follower or member of one or more of these channels, you could “subscribe” to topic-based tags and then follow an entire cluster of channels directly or indirectly. I am particularly interested in (digital) art topics. What I painfully noticed again in the course of the channel changeover, when I sent out invites for /the-library and went through the follower list, was how many artists have left FC again, many of whom I also brought on board at the time. I think that the fragmentation of the art channels is part of the problem and I often ask myself in which channel I should best place the post so that it gets the most visibility. You get the feeling that a lot of information gets lost and doesn't reach enough recipients because it's not bundled.

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how do we help people find their corner of the Internet - with their people. I know for me that the large /art channel was a horrible mess. I think the fragmentation is a good thing if each artist can find a home. Creating those conditions is the challenge.

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Thanks for chiming in, Chris. Sure it's fully up to the community to create channels as they like and then up to the owner/mods to give that channel a certain profile and direction within the larger channel landscape. It's simpler with channels that focus on a certain "field" of art, like /gen-art, /geometric or /plotter-art, but more difficult with "thematically open" channels, like /degen-art or /cryptoart, which want to support digital art, but it's not as clear what type of casts you can expect there. On the other hand they often have a larger, more general audience, you might then reach as an artist, though. What I was thinking about is more a meta categorization system, that runs silently in the background, but helps surface interesting topic-related posts cross-channel. More something that supports the algo in delivering users what they're really looking for, besides the channels (but sourced from it).

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A lot of artists have been wrongly marked as "spam" by the algo, no wonder artists are leaving 🥲 A while ago V asked us to tag people wrongly marked, I tagged 10 artists, they were then unmarked, but 2 weeks later many are back in "spam jail". The algo is now escalating even more this targeting of artists.

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