Dan Romero on Warpcast

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New experiment on Warpcast Narrowcasts - Limit your casts to channel followers - Cast in niche / esoteric channels without “annoying” your audience - You can toggle between everyone and channel followers only - The composer will remember if you previously narrowcasted in a channel

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FAQ 1. What happens when I narrowcast? > Normally, when you cast in a channel it goes out to all of your followers—regardless of whether they follow the channel. So if you’re a /diet-coke enthusiast, all of your followers will see your silly casts about caffeine in their home feeds, even if they prefer /coffee or Pepsi. But with narrowcasts, you can limit your casts to only followers of /diet-coke. Note: this is a Warpcast-only behavior for now. Other clients are free adopt or disregard this. 2. Are narrowcasts part of the protocol? > No. They’re an experiment. 3. How long will you run the experiment? > For a couple weeks. If it has low usage, we will likely remove. If usage looks good, we’ll work on incorporating into the protocol. 4. I want to see all casts from everyone I follow even if they narrowcast but I don’t want to follow every channel! > Try using another client like @super or @herocast

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Do narrowcasts appear in a user's profile (and search engines)?

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One more question. What is the success criteria for the experiments? A/B testing on engagement?

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Will narrow casts be promoted in the channel because it does not have any other audience?

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Very interesting! Would you consider making this default? Or at least let the user choose in the settings

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Is there a way to determine if a cast is narrowcasted from the cast data if this is not in the protocol?

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I like seeing those silly casts, it's how I've found out about a bunch of niche communities that I now enjoy, and learned more about my friends here on Farcaster I'm all for more granular control over casts but I feel like for the specific case of noise reduction letting people toggle off non-followed channels may be more helpful than the caster just limiting their post

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Personally I like to see what channels people cast in - I’ve discovered more channels that way.

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Unfortunately narrowcasting hasn't worked for me and some others. It doesn't matter if the option to only show to channel followers is selected or not, everyone can still see my cast. Just wanted to report as a bug @v

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So if someone replied to a cast I’ve made in a channel they don’t follow that’s because they went directly to my profile to find it right? It would be neat to take it from the main timeline profile completely (making it visible only on ‘Cast + Replies’ tab for instance). Would solve a repetitive looking timeline when one wants to broadcast something to multiple channels. Or even the option to hide it at all from the profile if someone doesn’t follow the channel, making following channels more critical.

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Ooh, I like this. I can see getting a lot of use out of this. 100 $degen

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