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Dan Romero
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How to be good at Farcaster 1. Cast often, mostly in channels 2. Focus on being a quality reply-or to build a following 3. Make internet friendships and deepen relationships via DM 4. Don't overthink it
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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I’m in what Amazon calls “disagree but commit” mode with the channels model. I think it doesn’t really work ever, and subredditverse is sort of the exception that proves the rule. Reality doesn’t like to color within our lines, even bottom-up, permissionless, folksonomic ones. But happy to be proved wrong.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The other thing to consider is your already have a large audience, so the extra work of channels doesn't really matter for you. But for a lot of people, the best way to build an audience and find like-minded people is through well-maintained channels.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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I'm not thinking in terms of reach/audience, though those are fair considerations. I'm thinking in terms of the procrustean bed effects on the *types* of conversations that can happen. In the long term, there are strong limiting effects if you effectively squeeze an undifferentiated public conversation into silos.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Basically, a medium-is-the-message point. A channelized medium has a less interesting message overall, and though technically channels are a pure "plus", psychologically the effect is to direct thought down channels. I already see it in my own posting. Starting to hold back on casts that don't fit channels.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Yet significant increase in casts per user post channels. So small % of people who want one big group chat.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
There's probably no easy way to run this experiment, but I bet the topic mix is heading down a more legible, structured path. In-channel vs. non-channel is a proxy, but only way to know is to do semantic analytics and see if clustering of cast contents roughly lines up with channel ontology
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