kenny 🎩
@kenny
I've said for a long time that Warpcast made a big mistake in February 2024 by getting rid of the reply bumping + chronological home feed and going algo only most people replied "go use another client", but my point was never about my personal experience it was that this decision caused huge downstream effects on the network because the vast majority of users use Warpcast and won't use an alt client any time soon therefore, if Warpcast makes a bad decision with feed quality, the entire network will suffer as the majority of users have to live with that bad decision the hypothesis was that many users (like myself) used the reply bumping feed as a way of finding interesting, active conversations, and then often joining in on those conversations getting rid of reply bumping and giving users a basic algo feed without comprehensive visibility into what the people we follow were replying to would harm that flow of conversation and according to the data, that's what happened 👇
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kenny 🎩
@kenny
@yesyes is levelheaded in his Paragraph analysis and I respect that, but I have my own conclusions that I think are clear from this data this shows that conversations on Farcaster, the lifeblood of the network, were sacrificed at the alter of "spam protection" back in February obviously though, that wasn't enough of a sacrifice, because everyone still complains that Warpcast has too much spam in which case one has to ask, was whatever this change accomplished worth reducing the odds by 50% that your friends will see and respond to your conversations? shouldn't a social network want to incentivize social exchanges? Warpcast needs to fight noise and spam, I get it but they also need to foster interactions between the users if the problem is "bad content" maybe product decisions that reduced the likelihood of good content being generated should be reevaluated
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kenny 🎩
@kenny
@brixbounty data on why I think they've made the wrong move prioritizing moderation over content generation
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kenny 🎩
@kenny
@ted you were asking for more constructive criticism so here's some on the product decisions back in February backed by data
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Kaprekar
@kaprekar.eth
Curious what DAU MAU looks like
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Chaotic Monk
@chaoticmonk
Mostly been a lurker here, and can confirm the reduction in "interesting content" (discussions in comments)
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