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Been mulling over this a bit and I do think channels are closest to hashtags but sadly get the short end of two sticks. Hashtags: 100.0% free and permissionless to use (can be made in realtime, ahead of time as a larger campaign, etc.) to organize ephemeral public group chats Communities (in some vein, subreddits): focused around a specific topic, [can] have hierarchy, often have static information and resources that not only bring people in via search engines but keep them around with self-managed wikis. Channels have too much friction to be created out of thin air yet and (currently) lack the structure and content to be meaningful for communities to build around. It'd be neat if clients displayed "trending" channels by recent activity relative to the average: i.e. /politics getting its uptick during big [US?] events, /game5 felt awesome in its time. Also, I really enjoy the novel use of channels for quote casting to recontexualize casts, i.e. into /bad-takes, /dont-do-this, /someone-build

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@woj.eth has literally done this

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I feel like I’m the only one who misses hashtags (to some extent).

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Yep been thinking exactly this. Channels are stuck between ephemerality and persistence - it’s not a hashtag or a subreddit, but a secret and more complex third thing… Maybe this is a job for clients to get experimenting (if they’re permissionless enough yet?)

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Nice breakdown! It feels like sentiment is pretty consistent around this subject, but everything I've seen from the team is resistant. The stated vs revealed, driving metrics, not wanting to add complexity arguments all feel like gaslighting. Revealed preferences re: the home feed can be attributed to psychology. We like scrolling. We will scroll. Doesn't mean it's the right brand/biz decision. Doesn't mean it's fun, innovative, or valuable. Users will continue to state they want to see more around channels for a variety of use cases 🤷‍♂️

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I do think the infrastructure is getting there now to build channels into more self sufficient communities. We still have a long way to go though.

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Yep, also for internationalization purposes. Take the /memes channel. What if I want to share a meme in a different language? Creating a new channel for each topic in every language feels wasteful. Global conversation topics should be handled through hashtags.

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Also, you could put multiple hashtags in one post. Recasting gets at this, but it can fragment conversation. That said, I think I prefer channels in terms of unifying a set of conversations and a community. Hashtags only very rarely did that and the fragmentation was still there. They weren’t strictly native because you needed a client to track them well. (Sidenote: I was dictating the above and my iPhone translated what I was saying into #OnlyVeryRarelyDidThat which says something about the prevalence of hashtags!)

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I still think everyone behaves like this https://warpcast.com/baubergo-/0xe96b8fd7

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The static text wiki or ability to customize your cozy corner a bit will make it feel closer to Reddit than a paid hashtag. I personally am one of these weird ppl who goes into communities and explores really reminds of me Reddit early days so I guess I’m an outlier.

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Agree, hashtags were leaving much more freedom in classification of content

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