fc-updates

Warpcast Experiment: X-Posting 

A few users who were active on X but not FC were invited to cross post. 

We want to see if cross posting makes them more likely to engage with Farcaster (beyond the cross post). 

If that happens, we'll roll it out more broadly. If it doesn't we may pause it.

Everyone opted in, fwiw

A consistent piece of feedback from people with large audiences on Twitter but were early on Farcaster (because I knew them):

"Farcaster is great, but I forget to post there"

So this is an experiment to syndicate their content to Farcaster. May take some time for people to start responding, but certainly the next time they open the app up they will have a full notifications feed and hopefully some thoughtful content.

If "casts with no chance of reply" is how you're viewing this, i.e. it's a negative, just don't follow an account or if you're seeing recasts, mute them.

The pragmatic view: still a higher chance that an account replies to you on Farcaster than on Twitter. That's just reality.

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

i think the framing of how the content being recasted is presented to the feed as if it is *posted by pmarca* when it's really a relayed message doesn't feel right. this is probably where the controversy is coming from. 

if it were presented as "new content on <social here> by pmarca: " people might be more accepting.

that's the thing pmarca doesn't make me mad, i'm mad because i feel fooled. i want pmarca content actually but the cast is luring me under pretence that i'm engaging with pmarca.

Possibly. It's the same content. People should just unfollow him if it makes them mad. 

Expecting a reply from everyone is not going to scale.

Lack of replies is not the problem. It's a lack of top-level casts.