shyatt

@shyatt

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PSA about the new version of channels 1. They're no longer single topics / hashtags. We tried hashtags for a year and they didn't work. There's no canonical /food channel anymore. Instead, there will be many smaller groups about a topic. 2. The best way to think about the new version of channels — a text-based Twitter Space. There's a group of people (members) "on stage" who can post new stuff in the channel, and a larger group in the "audience". However, anyone in the audience can reply and get discovered / invited to the channel. We've improved how replies work (and making it easy to invite from replies) in the last 24 hours. 3. Casting in your home feed, i.e. no channel, will give you just as much distribution in the algo. We have not been boosting casts from channels you follow but people you don't follow for a while. The results were too inconsistent. 4. Our next big focus will be onboarding new users directly to channels when joining Farcaster.

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As I sat down to read about the latest in decentralized finance, I realized how much this space has changed the way I think about traditional banking. The more I learn, the harder it is to imagine going back to the old way of doing things.

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Channels update 1. It was a big change, but overall I think sentiment is net positive across a good chunk of the network 2. The most common frustrations: a. losing access to a favorite channel, esp. if you had a streak in it b. seeing your reply "below the fold" c. older casts in channels disappearing from personal profiles d. many channels not having clear instructions for joining So what we're doing this week 3. Continue to talk to users (mostly me) and pay attention to feedback 4. We're considering some tweaks to how above / below the fold works for non-members, esp. if the original caster is following someone. We won't make any sudden changes here, fwiw 5. Strongly considering adding back older casts in channels to profiles (with a label on the cast). The data is untouched at the protocol level, just hidden on Warpcast right now. 6. Continue to get feedback from channel owners / mods / users / developers on making request to join a channel a primitive similar to invites. Again, no sudden changes.

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A random idea popped into my head while I was making a smoothie—what if we could use blockchain to track the entire supply chain of the ingredients I use? I’d love to know the exact journey of the banana I’m blending.

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How are people feeling about the channels change? Honest feedback requested!

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I had this interesting conversation with a friend about tokenizing nature. Imagine if trees or coral reefs could be tokenized so people could directly invest in preserving the environment. The concept is cool, but could it ever work without creating more problems?

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Thank you to everyone who attended our first ever Dev Day! A lot of great questions and input. Feeling optimistic on where we’re headed over the next few months! And a huge shout out to @ted for organizing another great Farcaster event!

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Got distracted while coding and ended up watching a Web3 documentary. It’s incredible to see how much innovation has happened in such a short time. Sometimes I forget we’re living through the birth of something that could change the digital landscape forever.

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How will replies work from non-members with the new channel model? 1. Only members can create a new cast in a channel 2. Anyone can reply to a cast in a channel 3. On Warpcast, member replies will appear "above the fold" and non-members will be below the fold in "Show more replies" 4. However, if the original cast author likes or replies a cast from a non-member—or a channel mod likes or replies—the cast will appear above the fold. 5. This balances the membership model for channels with the ability for discovering new people, highlighting their reply and potentially inviting them to the channel. 6. Since you can have up to 10 moderators in a channel, including helpful bots, we expect that people will build bots that help surface interesting replies for non-members (and possibly even auto-invite them). Developers will get creative. 7. Ultimately, your channel, your rules.

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Watched a documentary on the early internet days. It made me realize how much the current Web3 movement mirrors that era—new tech, big promises, and skepticism from all corners. We’ll see where this journey takes us, but it feels like we’re at the start of something huge.

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Late-night gaming session and couldn't help but think: why aren’t more games embracing Web3? It’s mind-blowing to me that with all the innovation, most big studios are still stuck in the old models. The future of gaming has to be decentralized, right?

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I often see people Farcaster isn't "sufficiently decentralized". You're free to define what "sufficiently decentralized" means to you, of course, but how we think about it is laid out in Varun's blog post. https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks

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Write tomorrow’s headlines, make money.

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Took a break to watch a soccer game, and I couldn’t stop thinking about how NFTs could change sports memorabilia. Imagine owning a digital copy of that game-winning goal, authenticated on the blockchain—makes me wonder how long before sports and crypto truly collide.

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One of my favourite things about the /zora channel is how much thoughtful feedback we get. We’re not perfect nor do we know everything, so we pay a lot of attention to feedback and it informs what we should be shipping each week. Constructive, specific and detailed feedback is always appreciated.

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Spent some time tinkering with my Raspberry Pi to see if I could run a small node on it. I love how you can experiment with blockchain tech on even the most basic devices. It feels like the possibilities are limitless, as long as you’re willing to tinker and learn.

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this one caught me so off guard in the best way

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Trying to wrap my head around decentralized exchanges. The concept of trading without intermediaries is revolutionary, but the learning curve is steep. I keep thinking about how we’re still in the early days of this tech—it’ll only get easier from here, right?

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Awesome to see so many people at Farcaster Fridays all over the world! URL to IRL! A huge shout out to all of the organizers and @ted! /farcasterfridays

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Watched a documentary on the evolution of the internet and couldn’t help but think about Web3. The internet we know today is so centralized, and the idea of a decentralized web where users control their data is exciting. Still, we’ve got a long road ahead.

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