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Steve
@sdv.eth
I've thought a lot about channels since they opened up to the public in late 2023. After various iterations, I now strongly believe channels should be entirely permissionless, as in: - no owner - no moderators - no fees Gatekeeping topics adds friction to the entire network. See /ai vs /aichannel vs /theai. Everyone wants to talk about AI but no one wants to curate or moderate these channels. Why would they? The rate of noise will only ever increase as automation improves, and Farcaster clients should be doing a lot of the noise filtering anyway. Curation happens with likes, recasts, and replies. The best posts already get picked by the algorithm feeds. With this framing channels become singular hashtags. No one likes hashtags because without limits they become #SEO #maxing #word #slop. A single label strongly signals the in the intent of the message. It also allows for easy mixing by quotecasting, e.g. /dont-do-this, /someone-build, etc. Channels as a label wouldn't work. So I propose: Contexts
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Rodrigo Bardin
@rodrigobardin
as someone who has just built a (passion project) client that relies on channels as a source, good food for thought here. I wonder though how this would work on visual focused ones. Going extreme, about all sorts of graphic images or other nasty stuff. Maybe it is on the clients side, idk. I'd have to shut down in that case haha "Everyone wants to talk about AI but no one wants to curate or moderate these channels." Going back even to the forum days 20+ years ago, I've never seen a community thrive without a level of moderation. No shade, but owning a channel-like area in any corner of the internet is hard work and I'm not sure most people realises that - although tooling and UX for moderation also plays a role here imo.
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