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tons of users have been reaching out to me re: spam labels. when i look at their content, these are the 5 most common pieces of feedback i give:

1. don’t only post mini-apps. think of warpcast as early facebook: if someone only posted dolphin olympics screenshots every day, people would tune them out.

2. avoid overly generic content. casting "gm" or inspirational quotes is fine occasionally, but if your feed feels interchangeable with anyone else’s, it’s hard for people to connect with you.

3. don't use AI thoughtlessly. people notice when casts or replies feel like ChatGPT wrote them. it’s fine to use AI, just add real thoughts or emotions. authenticity wins here.

4. don’t repost stolen photos / art from the internet. farcaster values original content or curation that reflects your taste — not just what’s trending on pinterest, reddit, or X.

5. quality > quantity. you don’t need to cast 10x a day or reply to everyone everywhere. take time to cast things you would stop scrolling to read.

The farcaster feed may need more curation with the proliferation of mini apps with social posts (e.g. requesting seeds on @farville)

These types of posts are critical to game dynamics but also can pollute the feed. 

Posting only to a games channel could help users protect their followers from unrelated content (although mini apps would then get worse distribution) 

This is going to be an interesting balance to try to maintain. 

Thinking about this because of this post from @ted which makes a great point of not spamming your followers with mini apps… but if I don’t request daily seeds I’ll never win a farville competition (cc @limone for thoughts)

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Since the tags didn’t go through: @ted @limone.eth /farville

agree with you and indeed /farville casts related to the miniapp all happen within the channel

i’m not sure there’s a way to solve for everyone, as preferences are differents, but likely we’re on an open and permissionless social

so if a user doesn’t like the algo feed by warpcast and they have no way to mute mini-app embeds, they can switch to another client

that was possible before on warpcast, and was called narrow casting (ie only channel followers would see it)

not sure its still possible

Right something that clients will have to sort through as this new paradigm proliferates. 

As a user I think ideally I’d be able to select if a mini apps related cast goes to just the mini apps channel or to all of my followers