Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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
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Vinay Débrou ⚙️
@vinaydebrou.eth
To be clear, I do NOT want to be on this list. If you read my grievance clearly, I am actually against the very idea of having such a arbitrary list for this core experience. Unless you want warpcast to be like a groupchat/discord server of 1000 people. This approach is a disaster at the scale beyond 1000 users. The core consumer experience turns insular.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What content do you show new users?
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
you develop an algorithm that gets the N best casts of the previous 24 hours and show them a feed with 100 of those, then 100 of the remaining, etc based on which ones they read (by understanding where they stopped) you develop a preference that doesn't require them to tell you what they care about the onboarding you have in place now is a giant mass of friction, and the first thing i do when i invite people in here is to unfollow the list of 70 people they followed programatically
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
This approach would reduce the number of people you see, since the power law of most engaged content is real. The auto-follow approach gives you 1) more exposure and 2) control over what you see.
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
but you always discuss that what you need the most is quality content, and that content is out there, but not being discovered if i was you, i would hire a ML engineer and a marketing person which's main focus would be to optimize for the feed that you show to newcomers, for them to find it as fun and appealing as possible /what makes farcaster the most fun place on the internet for the people that are already here?/ show them this feed BEFORE they create an account, and propose the account creation after they understand what's the value of farcaster (without any primitive to that feed other than this metric. that new user doesn't follow anyone yet, so the job of this person is to understand -and surface- the most interesting casts that have happened in the last 24 hours, whatever that means, regardless of who wrote them)
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AJ
@awedjob
“more exposure” as in the new user is SEEN BY more accounts or the new user SEES more accounts?
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