Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Virtually all of the people on Farcaster with large audiences: 1. Don't have large audiences elsewhere (Farcaster is their first time with a large audience) 2. Didn't know me or Varun and didn't know each other. The "Farcaster OG scene" is net new creation of Farcaster. 3. Were early and stuck around when everyone made fun of Farcaster (and people still do) 4. Continued to cast interesting stuff, casted in channels when we suggested people cast in channels 5. Warpcast onboarding asks all users for their interests 6. Based on the interests, we pair the account with an initial set of follows 7. There are 200+ accounts on the list, weighted toward accounts that get the most engagement / drive retention, but a large group of people benefit 8. On our list to improve, but the reality is outside of "I should be on the list!" haven't seen any concrete proposals to improve
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Vinay Débrou ⚙️
@vinaydebrou.eth
To be clear, I do NOT want to be on this list. If you read my grievance clearly, I am actually against the very idea of having such a arbitrary list for this core experience. Unless you want warpcast to be like a groupchat/discord server of 1000 people. This approach is a disaster at the scale beyond 1000 users. The core consumer experience turns insular.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What content do you show new users?
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Nate Maddrey
@nmadd
I agree with @vinaydebrou.eth. I get you're trying to solve for cold start but it feels like warpcast has outgrown the concept of having a group of initial suggested users. It creates am insular dynamic and is basically impossible to scale. Why not start with suggested channels instead of users? Or just start with an "intro feed" as @androidsixteen.eth suggested that does not push specific follows?
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