Building /bright-moments - minting onchain art IRL | /purple #15 | FID 129 #magikarp

Best group chat on Farcaster, in my view, is one that @danicaswanson has set up to discuss precisely how cryptonetworks are failing to meaningfully deliver on this value proposition for creators

TIL the most interesting conversations here are happening in direct casts

part of the conversation is about how direct casts also aren't really the ideal venue and how to correct for that

Part of me thinks channels (which seem to be deprioritized) should just be switched to default private 

That is a better approach/UI for private group conversation vs current group DCs

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While it's hard for me to fully express why channels also aren't ideal, at least in their current person, they also fail to provide a medium for preserving and surfacing lengthy deep discussions so that they can continue to but built upon on the network in a way that properly compensates the time that's people have contributed

part and parcel to the inability of existing networks to create structures that allow creatives to be fully engaged without needing a day job to pay the bills

@danicaswanson has gone into this a lot more than I have the bandwidth for

I’m the admin for a small invite-only group chat with great deep-dive discussions. (Currently 34 people; about 10 are regularly active). 

We’d love to have a public, community-owned cozy corner in addition to our private chat. Here's why we haven’t started a channel:

- We don’t have a sustainable economic model to support it. Channels are labor-intensive if done well. Even slow-paced small group discussions require regular maintenance. Without paid moderators and sustainable ways for network effects to accrue to the contributors, curators, and maintainers, it's unlikely to be feasible long-term. 

- Information impermanence. Groups develop collective memories over time, so they need easily accessible spots for archived material, rules, FAQs, best-of lists, etc. Right now even the best channel discussions get buried in the “perpetual now” of the algo feed and quickly forgotten, so there's no good place for what we'd like to do.

Well said, @eirrann.eth. My short-form take on why we haven't started a channel is here:

Well said, @eirrann.eth. My short-form take on why we haven't started a channel is here:

https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0xf302e012