Farcaster

Virtually all of the people on Farcaster with large audiences:

1. Don't have large audiences elsewhere (Farcaster is their first time with a large audience)

2. Didn't know me or Varun and didn't know each other. The "Farcaster OG scene" is net new creation of Farcaster.

3. Were early and stuck around when everyone made fun of Farcaster (and people still do)

4. Continued to cast interesting stuff, casted in channels when we suggested people cast in channels

5. Warpcast onboarding asks all users for their interests

6. Based on the interests, we pair the account with an initial set of follows

7. There are 200+ accounts on the list, weighted toward accounts that get the most engagement / drive retention, but a large group of people benefit

8. On our list to improve, but the reality is outside of "I should be on the list!" haven't seen any concrete proposals to improve

I think the dichotomy that strikes me most is the volume of difference between twitter and farcaster. On twitter, you have a large following if you have more than 10-20k followers. And a tweet does “well” to get like 50+ likes.

Here, you have most of your feed covered with people that have 100-200k+ followers, which is just unfathomable given the size we know CT is. And every cast from them automatically gets like 100 likes right away. Those who have been here longer know 80% of those are just bots, imo we have more of an unfiltered bot on stats problem than any autofollow/reach problem. But people new here will complain its a reach problem because of the magnitude of difference. And people psychologically hate seeing that big of a difference.

So if I asked the warpcast team for anything, it would be better bot filtering on all shown stats.

headmaster @duneanalytics, previously mirror and consensys

It makes me trust the product and the stats I see on my own casts. Often I click into something with 15 replies thinking there is substantive content, and am dismayed when I see it is 90% bots all echoing the same sentiment. That has happened enough for me I have started going back to Twitter to see/have real convos

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It also makes me less likely to follow people with larger audiences - bc I feel like I’m going to be more likely to see bot content (indirectly in these replies) bc of their large following. Would rather follow small authentic accounts that are real engagement and see real conversation