Farcaster

why Farcaster channels ain’t hitting it:

seems like more of a scale issue than one of a channel ui/ux issue

if farcaster had 1m DAUs channel experience could be totally different

not saying channels are perfect today either

Warpcast

this was me

the interface is designed around the main feed. yet the incentives and all other strategies are formed around channels. 

i think the concept of channels as a social network primitive is powerful. but they've been an after thought in the Warpcast interface.

i think those are separate issues. this one is a scale issue, you're right. 

reference for other folks, i got into the interface issue here:

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i think those are separate issues. this one is a scale issue, you're right. 

reference for other folks, i got into the interface issue here: https://warpcast.com/kia.eth/0x51e7d164

Yes they're separate issues, but to say channels are broken seems misdirected.

Channels aren't working because there aren't enough users casting niche, fresh content daily

So is the solution to change channels, or to get more users? 

Agreed channels aren't living up to the vision in practice, but curious to hear what you think the solution is here. Channel redesign? Remove channels? Focus on growth?

well i think they're different issues. for the current 'vibe not community' thing in the screenshot i do agree that it's a scale issue. 

but if we did have enough scale, diversity and desire to use "channels" as different communities (a la FB Groups or Reddit) then, I think we'd run into the interface problem. the twitter interface and by extension twitter-clones are designed for a unified discourse, not a fragmented one. (see screenshot below). 

but the idea of channels, communities and fragmented internet goes against the principles that were used to design twitter's interface. rn, channels are a slap-on onto the twitter UI and "channels" (conceptually) and twitter interface optimize for opposing outcomes.

screenshot is from here; https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-internet-wants-to-be-fragmented

you know i do think it's a great opportunity for another client and as an aspiring entreprepoor i've thought about it a lot. and i'm not excited to report back that I don't quite have a solution. 

though I think we'll see a few things:
1. a first principles approach to a "fragmented internet' version of twitter. most likely attempted by merkle. 
2. whitelabled community app: established subreddits, jiu jitsu twitter/instagram and other cohesive internet communities could use their own apps. this'll likely be white labeled because not a lot needs to change from one to the next but it's hard to make many individual versions of it. 
3. there will be discord-like attempts. i.e. an app that's designed around users that are in 5-10 club ted size, niche communities.

So at scale, how do you solve the interface problem? 

Instead of channels, would we have isolated apps built on the farcaster graph that are community focused? 

Does Merkle need to launch a Facebook Groups clone? Maybe throw in linkedin too 

Or should warpcast-as-twitter just implement #hashtags with better ML in line with what has worked on twitter?