If we changed the Warpcast default feed to Highlights with 10x casts -- with a boost for new users -- and made Following the 2nd tab, what would your reaction be?

1. Glad
2. Neutral
3. Sad
4. Mad

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Current following is reverse chrono. Only time it's not is when you've been gone for a while we take the set of following casts and sort by engagement. A refresh then goes back to reverse chronological.

3rd party algos are less likely for Warpcast

We'd rather encourage people to use other apps like Discove, Jam, Yup, Alphacaster.

Unclear custom algos scale (who pays for all the infra? what's the performance / latency like?)

One other concept that's a core difference between Bluesky and FC

Since your identity and data live onchain / Hubs, you don't have to have a home server / app. So you can easily use a variety of clients with different algos.

Bsky server model is closer to email, so algos come from your home backend.

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Although I think you should start laying the foundations for people to configure those tabs, and their ordering, with Warpcast defaults (Highlights, Following) and third party custom algos like what Bluesky just released.

we already have done a few a/b tests here, inconclusive

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easy to a/b test or would it need to roll out to everyone?

3 or 4. Would like to keep Following as the default.

I'd check a 'New' feed regularly though and say gm👋 to new users.

3. Please keep following as the first tab. About the boost, I think that would be fine in the short term.

1 - Glad for the future of Farcaster by driving more usages/discovery

Big caveat though: would like for a toggle to switch it back in the settings for anyone upset by the change.

Default to WC with configurable option to default to Following.

Why not give ppl a choice in the settings to choose their preference. Personally I prefer to see my following first before any highlights

If you made it really easy to change the default feed then it would be fine

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New users most important

Also, it feels more free market in a good way

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for the algo you mentioned, not sure how effective that will be just reading it. might work, but likely needs a couple variations to get going

if the algo is good enough, it will work. existing core users are usually mad at this change but the data speaks for itself on FB and IG home feeds (even before TikTok changed the game). Algo being good enough is important though