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Work in progress — the challenge with scaling quality in channels in a permissionless way. Pick 2.

This makes me wonder if there are any good examples on the internet where a platform has improved or maintained quality while also scaling. Maybe channels don’t need to have huge followings. I personally value quality more than anything else, but I did join FC for the permissionless benefits.

My hunch quality > scale within any given channel. Not sure how to constrain this for overly broad channels which happens on Reddit for example. But if there were a way the mechanics incentivizes say splitting and decentralizing as it got bigger.

Protocol, incentive, and narrative design.

Splitting channels sounds like forking communities, and I’m not sure how that would play out if both channels cover the same topic. Another idea is to organize channels into hierarchical directories to create a sense of subcommunities.

It could also be a way to enable "tags" because one of the challenges of categorization can be choice paradox.  Mostly tags are a bad experience, but I could imagine that within a community, clicking on a given tag takes you into the actual threads relevant both to the broad channel but also to the topic.