Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1. We're moving away from initial follows to a purely algorithmic feed. 2. We set up the initial follow system last summer because the single biggest reason for churn was people didn't follow enough people and didn't have enough content (and we didn't have a good algo feed yet). 3. I told people to cast in channels. A lot of people resisted / told me it was dumb. Other users took the time to do that. 4. We mapped onboarding interests (Ethereum, startups, memes, etc.) to channels and the users who were consistently posting in channels last summer / early fall. 5. The list had 200+ people on it, but 100 users got a power law of the initial follows. We actually randomized the number of follows between 60-70. 6. The list was proof of work -- at the time we set it up -- for the users that were here early and consistently posting. 7. There were some early users who -- for whatever reason -- did not cast a lot last summer and didn't do it in channels -- they missed out on initial follows as a result.
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shazow
@shazow.eth
In case it's unclear, I don't disagree with anything you wrote. 🤝
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kk
@king
5. The list had 200+ people on it, but 100 users got a power law of the initial follows. We actually randomized the number of follows between 60-70. Damn it dan, last summer there must have been 60-100k users already? Out of those, 200 and 100 having a power law is not really something of a notable range, the entire 200 got power law. Moving forward anyway, glad that autofollow got dumped. I don't even care so much about it, my main argument against it was "it's like searching on google and it filters out items they don't want you to see, in autofollow's case a few have ownership of the feed." The trending tab though wth man what is up with that...
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Mikko
@mikkolagerstedt
How are the suggested channels determined? Based off of the casters and followers?
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Erik
@eriks
awesome, do users still select interests at onboarding and then there are suggested channels or users to follow based on that?
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Jarrett
@jarrettr
Good change, I’m glad a certain….. dude won’t be getting anymore auto follows lmao Felt weird having one of the biggest grifters on here be auto followed when I made an alt account 😅
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Jawa
@jawa
🤞Hoping to see more results from channels I follow in the Home feed
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casslin.eth
@casslineth
@cast2save #autofollow
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Calvin 🎩🧾🐹
@50cal-eth
Thanks Dan
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agusti 🐘
@bleu.eth
this is great context glad it worked out well in the end and we moving on, hoping the ML algo can improve a bit 🫡
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