Elie on Warpcast

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Looking for people who are frustrated with the changes and new direction for channels. Last week, we got a lot of good feedback from people happy with / excited about the changes. See below. Now I want to highlight what's still not working for people. Specifically: 1. What's frustrating? 2. What would make it better? https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xcf622e07

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The main thing that I find myself looking for is the way to become a member. From my experience there are lots of different ways (gated, not possible, free to enter etc.) but it's actually not clear if and how I can join. Some channels have it as a link, some others as a pinned cast but there is no clear and standardized path.

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Do you have a few examples of channels where this is unclear?

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I didn’t know it was clear in any channel. Is there a join channel button I missed?

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Am I missing something?

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@gm8xx8 may not be interested in more members right now.

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So there’s one person that controls the ai channel on Farcaster 🤔 I’m not a decentralisation maxi but this strikes me as strange for the sufficiently decentralised social media app

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It’s not a canonical topic or hashtag. We tried that for a year. Did not work. There’s /theai You can cast in your home feed to all of your followers. You can create a competing channel. The goal is communities, not generic topics that no one cares about.

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As a user it felt like it worked. Obviously you have deeper insight there. But the current iteration feels more like “does not work” to me. Going further with improvements: Add a request to join button. I don’t understand how the ux is better if you need to dm someone. Or having every channel pin a tweet saying to reply / dm

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Also from a user perspective I don’t want to build up a new community just to post about ai.

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Going further on tackling spam. And this is something I think Twitter should do too. Build a set of trusted users. Any time they mark a post as spam (or x of those users mark it as spam), then mark the post as spam. That would have gotten rid of all the crypto spam tweets. They’d all be marked immediately. If users start to censure tweets they shouldn’t they lose their ability to report spam / censure. Yes, it won’t be 100%. It will be sufficient though. And in practice cover 99.9% of reports fine.

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You underestimate how much spam there is. Your original cast is I don't want to do work to join channels (which is reasonable); why would cleaning up spam be any different?

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You definitely have a better understanding of the true spam of the network. I don’t know the numbers. But as a user it didn’t feel like Farcaster was full of spam. Whatever filters you had in place kept it out (arguably too much because sometimes legit replies were hidden).

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And yes, I would spend a second to mark a vitalik scan whenever they come up. Although they never did. Because I’m assuming you blocked them out well. But I’m not going to go dm someone just to use a hashtag/channel.

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