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Steve
@sdv.eth
I've thought a lot about channels since they opened up to the public in late 2023. After various iterations, I now strongly believe channels should be entirely permissionless, as in: - no owner - no moderators - no fees Gatekeeping topics adds friction to the entire network. See /ai vs /aichannel vs /theai. Everyone wants to talk about AI but no one wants to curate or moderate these channels. Why would they? The rate of noise will only ever increase as automation improves, and Farcaster clients should be doing a lot of the noise filtering anyway. Curation happens with likes, recasts, and replies. The best posts already get picked by the algorithm feeds. With this framing channels become singular hashtags. No one likes hashtags because without limits they become #SEO #maxing #word #slop. A single label strongly signals the in the intent of the message. It also allows for easy mixing by quotecasting, e.g. /dont-do-this, /someone-build, etc. Channels as a label wouldn't work. So I propose: Contexts
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Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
feels about right not sure there is a strong enough use for them at this point maybe it helps develop subcultures like I like AI but this this specific brand of AI talk (aidoomerism) but also algos and follow grow already provide this and don’t require yet another thing for users to grok and di
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Steve
@sdv.eth
Yeah that's also true; algomaxxing would imply your interests naturally surface to you one way or another. At best I could imagine it does two things: 1. improves user agency by letting them decide where their casts go vs leaving it up LLMs 2. simplifies specialized clients/mini apps by just searching by label and not relying on expensive infrastructure. Kinda like the app someone made that scrapes /someone-build into crowdfunding
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