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Feels like a common problem for Farcaster. I think Warpcast has done a good job with curation and spam reduction... But in the process it hasn't stimulated a "conversation culture". You don't get any direct reputation value out of replying to ppl's casts. So ppl just QC instead. Making lots of low quality replies also punishes you, which is good. It's cut down on the pointless +1 replies. What we don't have is any incentive to actually start real conversations with ppl. To reply to ppl to give them validation we liked their post. Basically there's no mechanic that rewards friendships. On a platform that is hyper focused on reward incentives, having the most important activity be the least incentivized is what results in users feeling like they are "shouting into the void". Warpcast is doing great things, but what's really needed is to make conversations great again. Ideas, anyone?
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
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The mechanic for rewarding friendships and interactions are the friendships and interactions themselves, no? The network-protocol-client-whatever can facilitate it but it’s ultimately on the end users to 1) recognise the inherent value of talking to people and 2) interact and sustain relationships.
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I feel if you want to bootstrap a new social graph you have to think about these dynamics and come up with creative solutions. Maybe it's just on the social layer, but any good event planner knows that "good conversations" don't just happen naturally. There has to be an environment that encourages it, and I describe several of the environmental factors that are actively working against the intrinsic motivation for ppl to connect in a way that fosters good conversation.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
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One thing that this place has going for it is link positivity. Culture is referential and if the pointers are only ever internal the discourse gets stale fast. I know what you mean about the event planner thing. But what does “good conversation” feel / look like to you? Any examples from here, or from other places?
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I agree, I think there are several great things going for Warpcast! Link positivity is def one. Great point that encouraging ppl to share things in a pro-social way is really positive towards building connections. I actually think I have lots of great conversations on Warpcast. This is turning into one of them! Thanks for engaging! 🙏 But it took me a year of grinding it out to build up a solid social rep to get ppl engaging with me. I think that's the key: reducing that cold-start problem. I think Ted's working on the same ideas: https://warpcast.com/ted/0x495d5667
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
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Bootstrapping one’s social cred and seeing spontaneous clusters of interactions emerge are perennial social network problems, though, not just WC/FC ones. It’s interesting seeing how FC attempts to solve them at the same time as Bluesky.
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Totally agree. Which brings us back to my OP! 😁 We are at the scaling stage where we're expanding the cozy corner it has become here, and new users are churning out because of this problem with bootstrapping a new network. If the mechanisms we focus on to engage new users focus too much on the PVP, trading, and making money, relationships built on conversation and depth will be lost. The cozy corner will turn into the trenches. https://warpcast.com/nicovrg/0x60197847
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