social

surprised i'm only seeing the Flashes announcement now, but v cool to see decentralized social's value prop of "access to a built-in audience" and "reach a wider audience [beyond the app]" in TechCrunch.

another value prop: "instead of being trapped by an algo, access custom feeds or curated feeds from artists"

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Do you think Farcaster has effectively proven custom feed algorithms is a stated vs revealed preference?

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Hard no. (but tell me I'm coping, if you disagree!)

On FC, I have only seen 3 real attempts achieve enough adoption to test out:

- Discove - slow, eng decisions to build on then-expensive AI, couldn't allow non-experts to do 1 to 3 basic use cases

- flink had a novel emergent discovery feed, some ideas of which were kept in anoncast

- Firefly has its own independent algo. It just kind of operates in the background 

Bluesky and Mastodon have had  more real attempts at custom feed algos across a spectrum of approaches. Maybe those lessons are more illustrative.

My 2 second takeaway: paradox of choice