nicholas
@nicholas
abdicating responsibility for making a multilingual social network/app bizarre for a billion dollar company
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
You think it should be a top priority? Valuation has nothing to do with it.
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nicholas
@nicholas
I think it should be possible for non english speakers to get distribution on this decentralized social media protocol by getting power badges, yes
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What is the revealed preference is overwhelmingly that users want to follow people who speak their own language? We ran the experiment pre-priority mode and power badge and iirc you were complaining.
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nicholas
@nicholas
i have always argued for first class translation in-app because i love being exposed to global voices. niche preference, no doubt. however these highly opinionated prioritization takes can’t be made in a vacuum of how they affect PERCEPTION of farcaster. there isn’t scale to support an international client, and there is no immediate viable future in competing with merkle that way. if fb could internationalize 20 years ago, why can’t merkle today?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
I also find it amusing this is also you just 4 months ago. :) https://warpcast.com/nicholas/0x4e58c86e
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nicholas
@nicholas
I dont see the connection. Negativity campaigns can be deranked and non-english speakers can get power badges and show up in feeds of people who speak that language, simultaneously. What’s the conflict?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Power badge is like PageRank. It's based on people with the badge -- the core of the network, engaging with content. Badge is a relative algorithm. Not a binary.
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