Farcaster

GM Farcaster (podcast)

a common theme across the 50+ interviews we've done in the last 10 days is that it is HARD for new users to get started, know where to cast, find their footing and like-minded people.

starter packs, /gmfarcaster, FC newsletters, and finding a "onboarding buddy" help — what else? what needs to be better? how?

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Channels should be nurtured, new users should be able to post in what they think are the right places. Modding spam and off topic is still necessary but "members only" posting is too restrictive imo. 

Bots that recast affinitized content to the appropriate channels would/will help. 

Make /every/channel/a/repo kinda vibes

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what channels do you feel are good at this right now?

Music

Memes

Tbh none yet. /music might be the best, or /memes, but so far channels seem like a worse version of hashtags #

Reddit might be the gold standard right now, but older-ish school forums and Wikipedia style sorting will have some bang for the buck. 

If Warpcast was a campus, would a visitor know where to go? Would they know who to ask to know where to go? Would the obviously to-them places be places they could participate in, in good faith?

Sorry for the word vomit just thinking out loud on a good question 😊

Agree that Reddit isn't really a fair comparison. 

Wrt hashtags idk any tools that really still use them beyond maybe Confluence lol, but channels here are worse than them in that they hardly affinitize and don't perform a search narrowing function. 

Channels are crucial for new users and I do believe that they will improve the onboarding experience once they're more open and perform aggregation. I also think more legos will enable a much broader swath of cozy corners, which is the current best thing about Farcaster and channels. I'm not trying to be myopic and say there isn't anything good about channels, just that they're still in the crawl portion of crawl walk run.

yes but Reddit is decade+ old so great standard but tough real-time comparison

everyone says channels were good for new user experience, but then your reply says none are good yet and it’s worse than hashtags (but what platforms are still using hashtags?)