Dan Romero on Warpcast

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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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Thanks for the explanation on the call. I didn’t understand before when you said “they didn’t work,” but I have a better understanding of intent/outcome now.

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I like the analogy but it will be interesting how it plays out given Twitter spaces are ephemeral, channels are long running Keep rockin 👏

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If hypothesis true, wouldn’t there have been success cases in old channels? Flexible mod tools and 90/9/1 made it possible, this just changes the default Appreciate the experiment either way

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i know it's probably too soon to tell but how things looking so far? i like the changes for the most part. yall have the green light to begin decentralizing channels yet?

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Does the algo favor text over images and frames?

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I don’t understand point 1. Like you can’t make “too simple” channels anymore? Are you saying /food will cease to exist?

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1.what 2.what 3.ok that makes sense 4.what

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2 feels off to me.

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Galen @Gnosis 🦉

Nice! This should unlock some pretty direct interest-graph acquisition tactic. Is there a public channel that discusses how to grow Farcaster? Make the collective strategy-making public / spectacle.

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Re #1: does that mean channels no longer live in a unique namespace? Eg there can be two channels with /food ?

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re: 3, there were inconsistent results with the old version of channels. maybe with the new version, the results would be different? i’d like to have a reason to keep following new channels

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Have you ever thought about an additional meta-categorization system for channels? That could possibly make it easier to find relevant content in a group of thematically related channels? In addition to being a follower or member of one or more of these channels, you could “subscribe” to topic-based tags and then follow an entire cluster of channels directly or indirectly. I am particularly interested in (digital) art topics. What I painfully noticed again in the course of the channel changeover, when I sent out invites for /the-library and went through the follower list, was how many artists have left FC again, many of whom I also brought on board at the time. I think that the fragmentation of the art channels is part of the problem and I often ask myself in which channel I should best place the post so that it gets the most visibility. You get the feeling that a lot of information gets lost and doesn't reach enough recipients because it's not bundled.

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4 is big and was the only ‘concern’ i had to the new channel system (for new users) this cooking is too bullish

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just logged in after months and this was the first change I noticed. Thanks for explaining!

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Step 4 sounds satisfying

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Sir I really miss being able to cast my dishes and recipes in the /food it’s my top 5 favorite channel to use.

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