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People don’t want to see uninteresting replies and casts.

Best way to solve for that is weight historical inbound engagement for a user, i.e. PageRank-like score for every user.

Disproportionally hurts new accounts. Making it harder to get started.

maybe this could be counterbalanced by an algo boost for new accounts with interesting casts?

How do you know what new casts are interesting before they have engagement?

customer support @supercast

trying to sound smart /doingnumbers

this is a real challenge. but we can try to capture upcoming users/casts based on a low threshold of engagement from highly ranked accounts

'Discovery' is a problem across all clients. an experiment-> create a 'Discovery feed' for upcoming/new users to give them visibility/chance to get initial engagement. cc @woj.eth