Lifelong artist, software engineer by trade, technophile, creative and always curious 🔹 she/her 🔹 /blend-o-rama founder 🔹 https://zora.co/@bluecockatoo

It's just like society. In theory you can become anything you want, millionaire, president, etc... In practice it depends heavily on which social group you're born into, social mobility is quite low.

Most people with large audiences on Farcaster:

1. Didn't know me before Farcaster
2. Did not have large audiences on Twitter or other platforms

They were early and stuck around.

Most people with large audiences on Farcaster:

1. Didn't know me before Farcaster
2. Did not have large audiences on Twitter or other platforms

They were early and stuck around.

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

To be fair, most people with large audiences on here were either a) on an auto-follow list and/or b) are mostly followed by farmers and bots

/new-york by day 🗽 /latenightcrew by night :) Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮

1. Auto follow list is based on interests which map to channels.

2. Auto follow list is 200+ people and it has randomness in it for 15% of follows

3. Auto follow list are people who were early, stuck around, and kept posting

4. Mostly followed by farmers / bots -- same for any big public social graph :)

If someone made a living list of promising accounts, that were vetted in some form, would you consider injecting some of those users into the auto follow list? Main beef with current set of 200 is that it can feel stagnant. And you have a rich get richer effect.