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Pichi 🟪 🍡🌸
@pichi
Are Channels Still the Future of Farcaster? (🧵) I used to think so. Now? Not so sure. Back in April 2024, spam was everyone’s problem on Farcaster. Then the channel overhaul happened and shifted the spam burden to hosts. If your channel is full of spam, it’s on you: Gate better. Moderate harder. Ban faster. It’s exhausting and most channel hosts have ignored it or automated it, confusing new folks and aggravating old ones who can’t cast into channels freely. Fast forward to April 2025: spammers got smarter. The current model aggressively flags most users as low-value. 80% of casts are orphaned—no replies, no recasts, no likes. Worse, casting into channels doesn’t trigger spam labels, which flipped the whole dynamic and spammers gravitate to casting into some channels hoping for visibility.
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mcilroyc
@mcilroyc
I hate to be the "what about hashtags?" guy, but I do wonder if *some* of the value of channels could be solved with hashtags or some similar way of adding zero-to-many "category labels" to a cast. Other users could add a label to an existing cast in order to promote it to a particular community that the OP didn't think of. This might eliminate the need for many channels that don't really need to exist. The remaining channels could be a much smaller set of things that really need the structure of gated/managed channels.
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Pichi 🟪 🍡🌸
@pichi
That’s the fundamental issue. Many people use them as hashtags. Many people don’t. It’s causing the friction.
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