Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Stream of consciousness on channels 1. The overwhelming top complaint about the new channels is āI lost accessā / āI canāt cast in the channels I used toā 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 wouldnāt 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 / āplasticā / 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 āchannels = more distributionā is hard to unlearn, esp. if youāre more of a weekly active user.
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@metawavestudio
Feels like discordās invite to join mechanic. One of the biggest churns. But good for retention. If Q is networking and onboards people to channel they may churn. But when they come back itās instant access to a familiar group. Could be bullish news š
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Yeah the goal with the new model (and an improved invite flow) is better retention
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