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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
It’s pretty incredible how good people are at sniffing out resource scarcity and “status” markers People absolutely speedrunning the: “whoa Farcaster is pretty cool” ⬇️ “wait why don’t I have an active badge” ⬇️ “kill Dan and everyone he puts on the auto-follow list” cycle rn
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elle
@riotgoools
it's unfortunate that everyone is conditioned for follower numbers. i think with the current social landscape, that metric is totally useless at best and misleading at worst i don't think i'm on the auto-follow list and i still get tons of what appears to be non-human followers which renders the number pointless to me
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
hard agree here we're often like "when number go up" when we should be like "why number go up"
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elle
@riotgoools
active badge, on the other hand, is still useful but probably could use some more tuning. there's a more tangible meaning to it than "number big good." ideally, it would mean "this person contributes in a net positive way to the convos here and is worth following." this encourages ppl to get on that level
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
for sure @ilemi is doing some good work here (and we hope to help him) to make a public calculation that apps can use to quickly determine this kind of metric
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elle
@riotgoools
it's a tricky calculation (⌒_⌒;) do u do it reddit style based on peer upvotes/reactions (can be gamed) or have ai sift through content (can be biased) or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
every model is wrong but some are useful 🫡 We’ll make something shitty, figure out why it’s shitty, and make it a tiny bit better the next time (repeat until god-adjacent)
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