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justin.ahn.eth
@ahn.eth
some takeaways from talking with farcasters irl in /paris yesterday: - in total 11 people showed up (2 directly from the airport!), engaged users are motivated to connect irl - everyone looking for alpha (stated preference as joke, revealed preference seriously); a lot of degen, defi and clanker talk - from content creator pov, goal is audience growth, and warpcast/farcaster/web3 tools in general do not provide enough analytics atm to achieve this - my 3rd year hosting a meetup, first time hearing people express not 100% positive sentiment, mainly on concerns of user growth, lack of client diversity and difficulty for new accounts to break through
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@camilags
I think it is indeed very difficult for new accounts bc their casts are usually hidden. And many times people donโ€™t spend the time with them. There should be some incentive for new accounts. Maybe a tab with casts posted only by new accounts?
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Irina Ideas
@ideas
Great idea, I was one of those users and while I joined FC in February last year, I started using it just two months ago when a friend introduced me to the community. I think new users need a lot of encouragement and very important for growth of the network
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@camilags
Yes, it takes time, patience and consistency to build a circle here. But with time, it starts to get easier. There are a lot of nice people around.
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it's certainly a challenge and discoverability of users & content is important to grow any social network but i think it's also a two-way street as it seems many users think simply casting content should be enough to grow an audience here, which isn't the case on any other platform fwiw, i think your response is one of the better ways to grow here, find people that resonate with you and try to engage authentically with them to increase your distribution
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@camilags
For sure it requires an active presence. Talking to people and engaging with interesting ideas is the most effective (and pleasurable) way of meeting people and creating a circle. Channels are a good entry point. When I was new, I was lucky to have some active channels where people really engaged with each other (like words and power Monday). They werenโ€™t about only sharing content but creating longer conversations.
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Irina Ideas
@ideas
Yes very true. Are those two channels still active? I am still a newbie, learning very slowly here. About content creation I have a feeling this should evolve somehow from attention grabs for as many eyes as possible within certain niche to journaling, documenting our unique realities without that burden of analytics because quality/originality suffers but then at the other hands audience is needed, so the question is how can we make AI work for us this way
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@camilags
I think those channels are way less active. Power Monday worked well when there was still the power badge. I got to know very nice people also on justbuild, running, poetry. By the way, do you know @katekornish ? She is also a classical musician and a wonderful person.
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@ideas
Oh absolutely, @katekornish was an instant connect and a beautiful soul, just the other day we were plotting here how we want to meet in real life in 2025. It is our objective and I believe we will achieve it and will demonstrate here a power of FC to connect two classical musicians from different parts of the world. How awesome is that
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Thatโ€™s amazing! ๐Ÿคฉ
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