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@timdaub.eth
I think if Farcaster wants to become the social status game of Ethereum‘s who is who, it needs to get rid of the Farcaster aristocracy. Otherwise, what status game is it implementing? Not clear to me
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@nor
Are we part of the aristocracy? Because if so i agree. I'm hoping new feed algorithms will make this better, but I also think that this will naturally happen as new clients emerge and new ways of tracking relationships emerge
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I don‘t count myself as part of them. Let me be straussian and say: I think my membership has been tested and I was rejected because I‘m an enfant terrible that poses too much risk upon entry. Given that you have 5k more followers and since you present as fairly „brand-safe,“ you‘re more in than me.
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@nor
lol I'm always surprised when ppl have that perception. I've frequently felt like I didn't belong here because: 1. I'm not libertarian 2. I don't suck pmarca's toes 3. I think nfts are about as interesting as any other datastructure 4. I'm not e/acc Just those 4 have frequently been enough to make me feel out of place
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@nor
But I think the key is to avoid thinking about followers as status. I understand that the goal of the mechanism is to get you to compare your followership to everyone else's. But we know how that ends It's a fine mechanism to start with but it has pathological properties and we should aim as best we can to replace it
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@nor
Can you say more?
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@nor
Yeah that makes sense. There are at least 3 centralizing feedback loops that cause those of us who already have lots of followers to get more, meaning smaller accounts have lots of trouble getting engagement. If you were the benevolent dictator, how would you fix this?
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Giving casts initial burst of exposure regardless of OP could make the algo outcome more balanced, by letting it surface good casts from small accounts Recasts of smaller accounts by bigger ones could spread super far; button to follow small OPs when they do banger casts Random ideas that I’m sure have flaws
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