I can cast to zero channels now. The new default “invite only” behaviour is not a good way to build a social network, imho.

If I am locked out of “where the discussion is happening,” then I imagine *many* more users will be too. The app becomes dead on arrival for 99% of us.

To be fair, your last cast to main was five months ago and the change was heavily weighted towards recent activity because there needed to be some cutoff. 

You can still just cast to main about whatever you want. If you do that, your ideas will naturally find their way into communities that want to discuss them with you.

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Maybe I’m misunderstand channels; but if I (or let’s imagine somebody who just started on FC and has no followers) post in main, there doesn’t seem any path for my cast to find its way into the gen-art channel, unless somebody quotes it? It seems to lock out a lot of people.

Think about them like Facebook groups or Slack servers and less like topic tags. People will find your casts by following you, just like on Twitter. You may get invited to participate as a member in some channels, but it’s not the only place the discussion is happening and will likely focus on niche subtopics.