Virtually all of the people on Farcaster with large audiences:

1. Don't have large audiences elsewhere (Farcaster is their first time with a large audience)

2. Didn't know me or Varun and didn't know each other. The "Farcaster OG scene" is net new creation of Farcaster.

3. Were early and stuck around when everyone made fun of Farcaster (and people still do)

4. Continued to cast interesting stuff, casted in channels when we suggested people cast in channels

5. Warpcast onboarding asks all users for their interests

6. Based on the interests, we pair the account with an initial set of follows

7. There are 200+ accounts on the list, weighted toward accounts that get the most engagement / drive retention, but a large group of people benefit

8. On our list to improve, but the reality is outside of "I should be on the list!" haven't seen any concrete proposals to improve

pls let’s hear the truth that is there’s really only a set of hand picked accounts you have on the autofollow list. come on let’s stop the bs. love u tho

yea, it’s really not working. if those 200 are getting 10s of thousands of followers from being on the list and only getting like 200 engagement at best something is wrong.

1. Most accounts churn
2. Who should be on the list that's not?

that way you introduce a few useful mechanisms:
1. big guys are challenged to create great content, because every new 1k of their base will need to be matched on the engagement rate side, otherwise they lose the privilege

2. every gets a chance to grow - only feedback from others matters in terms of being exposed to new users, automatically.

3. since it's dynamic, you can create a lot of gamification around it to further incentivize the great content creation and real engagement.

re2. you should apply “time-limited” auto follow flag to accounts that have been scoring uniquely well in relative terms (avg engagement rate %) over the last x casts in the last y days. 

and then periodically revaluate whether  there still is a reason for keeping the flag on.

autofollow flag gives you a boost in the denominator of the metric so you need to work harder on quality of casts to bring engagement (nominator).