Farcaster

What is the most frustrating thing about Farcaster right now?

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I’ll only ask clarifying questions (ie I won’t tell you you’re wrong) and then respond to a dozen or so top answers in a video this weekend with how we think about it.

I'll echo what you've repeatedly mentioned in the past: not enough great content, (particularly in a bull market, when speculation fills the air).

As a corollary: I think the channels experiment (regardless of outcome) has forked both Merkle's and users' focus on content discovery between channels & better feed(s).

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First, as a user:
• There's a greater cognitive load in creation: do I post this in main or in a channel? who will see it if I post in a channel? will they be able to reply? does it get boosted to non-channel members?, etc.
• There are obstacles for curation: if I follow this channel, but I'm not a member, will I eventually miss anything? am i better off following the active members? should I follow both?
• As a business account: should I have a community for my brand, or a user for my brand or both? how do i treat each or both?

TL;DR: I think folks may be divided on whether the best way to approach the product is "deep" (all-in on main, value aggregates to my account alone) or "wide" (find my several cozy corners, value aggregates but diluted between my account AND channels).

As Merkle (obviously, take with a grain of salt, but just sharing what I've experienced thus far at Bunches):
• small, high caliber team with limited resources
• long-lived experiments aren't really experiments
• opportunity cost: what if we invested time & effort that we're spending on channels into main (or vice versa!)

> As a corollary: I think the channels experiment (regardless of outcome) has forked both Merkle's and users' focus on content discovery between channels & better feed(s).

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