While I agree with a lot of the channel changes the FC team made recently, it feels very weird as a user to be unable to post in channels that I have posted in before and then visit these channels and see what feels like low effort posts. 

Am I no longer in the cool kids club? Are these channels run by bots? Anyone else feeling this way?

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Nature is what made me cast that, but I messaged the mod and got in. Trying to figure out each channel’s policy, membership etc makes me feel like I’m missing info or unsure of how things work. Some channels communicate it well

I think you own product & farcaster - those are two other channels id love to cast in (& have before) but I’m not sure how to

For what it’s worth I think many of these choices about the direction of channels are correct (esp as you decentralize them), they just feel weird as an existing user in transition

yoga

And there are also cases of channels (things like /yoga) where there has been human activity before (not a ton) but there is still AI generated spam content and bc of the change others got locked out of the channel. So now it basically feels dead bc all the recent content is obviously fake. I think a lot of channels will languish and then maybe need to be purged ahead of full decentralization