I’d love to see the engagement numbers as this channels experiment plays out. I can’t be the only person unfollowing channels I used to participate in because I can’t be bothered to figure out the specific membership rules or method to reconnect.

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lol. I just casted something similar. I understand why a lot of the decisions were made but it’s insane how much cognitive load it requires to figure out what is going on in a given channel… and I am an active daily user

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Unless owners take a very active role in recruiting, channels will become group chats of cozy intimacy. Or stagnate. And people will revert to their own feeds. That’s my guess.

Yeah. I am gonna unfollow a bunch and just cast more I guess. Again, I get the reason for a lot of the changes. For a net new user it might not be the same experience. They will just follow. But for people making the transition it feels like being kicked out of a community

Yeah. The only thing that matters is the engagement numbers. We may be an edge case. But from a UX standpoint, decentralization sucks here. If every channel has their own hoops to jump through becoming a member will be the exception rather than the rule. And that may not be bad, but it’s different.