fc-updates

Warpcast Experiment: X-Posting 

A few users who were active on X but not FC were invited to cross post. 

We want to see if cross posting makes them more likely to engage with Farcaster (beyond the cross post). 

If that happens, we'll roll it out more broadly. If it doesn't we may pause it.

Everyone opted in, fwiw

A consistent piece of feedback from people with large audiences on Twitter but were early on Farcaster (because I knew them):

"Farcaster is great, but I forget to post there"

So this is an experiment to syndicate their content to Farcaster. May take some time for people to start responding, but certainly the next time they open the app up they will have a full notifications feed and hopefully some thoughtful content.

If "casts with no chance of reply" is how you're viewing this, i.e. it's a negative, just don't follow an account or if you're seeing recasts, mute them.

The pragmatic view: still a higher chance that an account replies to you on Farcaster than on Twitter. That's just reality.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

late to the party, but this is a great move

something we learned at LBRY is that creators cant just switch to your platform. they have to bring their existing audience with them

crossposting (or "sync to lbry" as we called it) was step 1 of the path. the next steps we gave creaters were

- post to youtube first but tell your fans you prefer they watch on lbry
- post to lbry first and it syncs to yt
- post to lbry first, then post to yt an hour later
- post teasers to yt but the full content on lbry
- eventually ditch yt altogether

something similar might work for fc