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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
PSA about the new version of channels 1. They're no longer single topics / hashtags. We tried hashtags for a year and they didn't work. There's no canonical /food channel anymore. Instead, there will be many smaller groups about a topic. 2. The best way to think about the new version of channels — a text-based Twitter Space. There's a group of people (members) "on stage" who can post new stuff in the channel, and a larger group in the "audience". However, anyone in the audience can reply and get discovered / invited to the channel. We've improved how replies work (and making it easy to invite from replies) in the last 24 hours. 3. Casting in your home feed, i.e. no channel, will give you just as much distribution in the algo. We have not been boosting casts from channels you follow but people you don't follow for a while. The results were too inconsistent. 4. Our next big focus will be onboarding new users directly to channels when joining Farcaster.
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Meg
@meganmichelle.eth
2 feels off to me.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Say more?
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Meg
@meganmichelle.eth
It’s probably to deal with spam, and I get that, but if we’re trying to foster cozy corners and community why do we wanna create a tier 1 mod group right off the bat for everything. It makes these “text spaces” feel hierarchical to me right away. That’s the off-putting part I mentioned before.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Imagine we have a magic algo that prevents all spam. Still doesn’t solve that some people are less interesting than others. And that is relative and unique for each person. Instead of single canonical topics, move to smaller, more tight knit spaces:
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Meg
@meganmichelle.eth
So the idea / long term thinking is the “member” - ness will incentivize more channels - or more tight knitted-ness?
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