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Pichi 🟪 🍡🌸
@pichi
Are Channels Still the Future of Farcaster? (🧵) I used to think so. Now? Not so sure. Back in April 2024, spam was everyone’s problem on Farcaster. Then the channel overhaul happened and shifted the spam burden to hosts. If your channel is full of spam, it’s on you: Gate better. Moderate harder. Ban faster. It’s exhausting and most channel hosts have ignored it or automated it, confusing new folks and aggravating old ones who can’t cast into channels freely. Fast forward to April 2025: spammers got smarter. The current model aggressively flags most users as low-value. 80% of casts are orphaned—no replies, no recasts, no likes. Worse, casting into channels doesn’t trigger spam labels, which flipped the whole dynamic and spammers gravitate to casting into some channels hoping for visibility.
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Pichi 🟪 🍡🌸
@pichi
These are my questions for all of you: • To gate or not to gate? • Is anyone even posting in channels? • Does anyone scroll them? • Are channels just for farmers (and not the FarmVille kind)? • Can a community survive on a single pinned cast?
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Pichi 🟪 🍡🌸
@pichi
To gate or not to gate? Gating was crucial over the summer and fall and definitely keeps the majority of farmers out of specific channels, but now I see fewer and fewer posts in the channels I used to frequent. Sure there isn’t as much spam, but there isn’t much of anything else. Do we still need gates? Should most channels be public unless there is a good reason to keep the gate? I’m struggling with what to do with most of my channels. Many are in public mode now to experiment.
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Dirty Kumquats
@dirtykumquats
I still find having a channel useful. It helps me keep what’s on brand specifically in that channel and any non related casts outside of it. I wound up adding a gate to combat low quality moxie engagement farmers but just recently removed it since most of those accounts seem to have moved on after moxie killed farmable emissions or were bot filtered.
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Pichi 🟪 🍡🌸
@pichi
Moxie emissions definitely changed the game. I’m still debating how to deal with that.
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