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

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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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.

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.