Farcaster

I like to feel all the experiments the Farcaster team runs, so I never disable them. But the Someone Followed Someone Else experiment is a perfect example of lifting hopes then crashing them. 

I think most people want the dopamine hit of someone commenting or recasting or whatever. So, when you see a notification that someone you know did something, that's what you expect. 

Then, the letdown comes when you realize it's just a notification that they followed someone. 

This is a social psychology dopamine letdown.

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makes sense

this is a slightly different thought but related: I've come to appreciate the tension between explore and exploit in this context. In theory everyone wants new voices to be heard and to discover new stuff but in practice this generally looks like showing users something (i.e. cast from a user they don't follow, suggested follow) that is less interesting than otherwise could be shown to them