Alexander C. Kaufman
@kaufman
It seems to me this is the point of the specialized channels. In the future, if you’re here for news, you can find it. If you’re here for photography or coding discussions, you can find it. It’s easy to draw parallels with X. But maybe a better comparison is Reddit. I know plenty of people who get news from Reddit. I’m not one of them. I mostly follow subreddits that track specialized interests and get my news from newspaper apps and X.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
What newspaper apps are you using
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Unfortunately, Warpcast (the dominant Farcaster client by far) had a too short-lived experiment with channels last year, IMHO. There was a brief period in which people got excited by permissionless channels, paid for them, set up auto moderation rules for them, etc. This was eventually scaled back. Channels are no longer first-class citizens, auto moderation is gone, and many legacy channels died empty because users need to be invited to cast in them. I miss the narrow casting feature in particular — it allowed users to limit the visibility of their casts to subscribers of a channel, which is important for variety casters with many interests who occasionally don’t want to spam their entire audience with a niche cast. I’d rather follow topics than users, with a few dozen exceptions. That to me is how we differentiate from Twitter.
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
A cozy-ish Reddit/discord model was the direction for a while and at first ppl really dug it, but I think the algorithm eventually stopped encouraging channel posting. @dwr.eth curious what the current thinking is around channels?
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yesyes
@yesyes
Yup, and it is also possible to mute channels so if a person really doesn't want to see news, they can just mute the news related channels.
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tim/vortac
@vortac
What’s missing still is a proper channel index
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
There’s even more potential to be unlocked with channel-based clients https://warpcast.com/ghostlinkz.eth/0x8ba6c953
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