I get it...Just cast bangers BUT...

I'm still fuzzy on how to think of channels vs my home feed? 

I want to understand when to do what without making some weird FC faux pas and yes its nice to understand reach optimization too but that is priority #2

Farcaster

PSA 

Clearing up a few misconceptions

1. Casting in your home feed gives you the same distribution as casting in a channel.

2. Everyone can read and reply to casts in channels

3. Most people will appear above the fold with a reply.

4. We changed the way channels work to shift them from hashtags to communities.

5. If you’re annoyed by the changes, just cast in your home feed. You’re not missing out on distribution or discovery casting in a channel.

"I thought if before, casting in channels showed my casts to people who follow the channel but don't follow me?"

1. We tried it, didn't work; this was measured through 100% of users in an A/B test for the home feed on Warpcast. People *engaged less* with content recommended from channels they followed but people they weren't following. 

2. What has worked is boosting individual accounts and casts with engagement from a lot of people you follow

3. So any version of claiming that people were getting a lot of engagement from content post in channels is not backed up by the data.

4. There were a small % of users visiting channel pages. But vast majority never left the home feed. When you asked them why not, the answer was channel pages were uninteresting and in many cases spammy.

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One last question(s)😜: How are channels more like communities now as opposed to hashtags? 

Because one would only go there to add value or learn as opposed to try and get something out of it (distribution/discovery)?

It was a journey but I get it now 
Thanks team

membership idea is to ensure high-quality contributors create high signal content that’s community endorsed vs engagement farming and adding to more noise from reply guys… 

before this move, the AI to Human ratio of active users was skewed 

 In a way it creates a sorting function