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People don’t want to see uninteresting replies and casts.

Best way to solve for that is weight historical inbound engagement for a user, i.e. PageRank-like score for every user.

Disproportionally hurts new accounts. Making it harder to get started.

maybe this could be counterbalanced by an algo boost for new accounts with interesting casts?

How do you know what new casts are interesting before they have engagement?

Have to test them out to see. Just like TikTok and Reels show you a new vid every ~10 videos to feed the algo. Probably harder to measure with casts/tweets though - TikTok’s full screen takeover has its advantage.

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And if the person being replied to engages with the reply, that signal boosts the cast and the account?

Exactly. You’ll just visually skip it and if it’s spammy you’ll be annoyed.

This is why the best strategy for new accounts is to reply.