Farcaster

Virtually all of the people on Farcaster with large audiences:

1. Don't have large audiences elsewhere (Farcaster is their first time with a large audience)

2. Didn't know me or Varun and didn't know each other. The "Farcaster OG scene" is net new creation of Farcaster.

3. Were early and stuck around when everyone made fun of Farcaster (and people still do)

4. Continued to cast interesting stuff, casted in channels when we suggested people cast in channels

5. Warpcast onboarding asks all users for their interests

6. Based on the interests, we pair the account with an initial set of follows

7. There are 200+ accounts on the list, weighted toward accounts that get the most engagement / drive retention, but a large group of people benefit

8. On our list to improve, but the reality is outside of "I should be on the list!" haven't seen any concrete proposals to improve

I think the dichotomy that strikes me most is the volume of difference between twitter and farcaster. On twitter, you have a large following if you have more than 10-20k followers. And a tweet does “well” to get like 50+ likes.

Here, you have most of your feed covered with people that have 100-200k+ followers, which is just unfathomable given the size we know CT is. And every cast from them automatically gets like 100 likes right away. Those who have been here longer know 80% of those are just bots, imo we have more of an unfiltered bot on stats problem than any autofollow/reach problem. But people new here will complain its a reach problem because of the magnitude of difference. And people psychologically hate seeing that big of a difference.

So if I asked the warpcast team for anything, it would be better bot filtering on all shown stats.

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Its solves the feeling of having a real audience and approachable growth/reach for new joiners. 

Im not looking to solve my own problems here, responding to the feeling that others who are just joining warpcast are feeling. L

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Thats exactly my point! The follower/reaction numbers on warpcast reflect a giant social network, when we know the size of CT on twitter is magnitudes smaller. 

Ansem with the reach to engage with iggy and other mainstream influencers has 400k followers and you’re telling me that hundreds of people on warpcast have 200k followers? 

My point here is that this creates a psychological dichotomy on expected reach which then feels “unfair”. Then they blame whatever they can. In reality its like 10k engaged users here, and if you take that mindset then everything feels more realistic and fair.

What was the volume /follower concentration like on Twitter in years 1-3? 

It's not really fair to compare Twitter today vs Farcaster today. That'd be like comparing Nvidia and a Series A stage AI startup.

+1 ...I know many people who would likely spend time here if building a following felt more attainable.

Agree! But need this to be obvious at an app level by warpcast and other clients. Cant be something only us data nerds reason about 😁

counting power badge reactions is a solid proxy

if 90 of those 100 likes, of a 200k follower account, are illegitimate... that's even worse

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@sayangel seems to be doing some good bot filtering with @botornot 

I wonder what percentage bot/human reactions these accounts you mention have.

I would guess that of my 15k twitter followers, at least 70% are bots or dead accounts.