Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Stream of consciousness on channels 1. The overwhelming top complaint about the new channels is “I lost access” / “I can’t cast in the channels I used to” 2. The root of this is channels ran for a year as public topics / hashtags and we nudged people to cast in channels for a minor distribution boost. 3. When we launched channels last year, one of the fears was people wouldn’t cast in channels, since Twitter has tried versions of this and people were too used to casting on main / in the home timeline. 4. Farcaster user behavior was more nascent / “plastic” / early adopters. So we ended up getting most people to cast in channels. 5. The other reality is most people want to maximize distribution. So telling them “channels = more distribution” is hard to unlearn, esp. if you’re more of a weekly active user.
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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
@pichi
I joined Jan 28, 2024 and for as long as I can remember when I created a cast there was a pop up that literally said “add a channel for more views”, there was even a popular channel called “no channel” to put casts that didn’t fit into a category. It’s how I was taught by the UX to use Warpcast. This is a very difficult behavior to unlearn and it’s going to take people a long time to undo this behavior. We will get there eventually.
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Marcelo Terça-Nada 💎🎩✨
@marcelonada
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