A few counter intuitive things we've learned building FC: 

1. Make people sign up on mobile

Push notifications and little red dots on the home screen are the lifeblood of social apps. Most users who sign up on web will simply forget to come back.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

2. Make your homepage a signup screen, not a feed preview. 

Generic feeds are not compelling. You need some onboarding before you can show an interesting feed that makes people stick around.

Every social network's home page is a simple sign up screen with no preview for this reason.

Great point—just checked Reddit’s homepage without logging in and the feed is super bland. Never really noticed that. 4chan’s different—you pick a topic first, which makes it more engaging right from the start 🧐

Reddit shines because you can follow topics (subreddits) instead of people (who each cast about more than one topic, not all of which you find interesting).

This is why I wish channels were still a first-class citizen (e.g., channel-based feed, channel recommendations, narrow casting, etc) on Farcaster.

More Reddit, less Twitter