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raulonastool.eth 🎩 🏰
@raulonastool
Finally had a chance to listen to the first text-to-video AMA by Dan and had some insights/reactions: 1. Dan is hyperfocused on user growth through increasing the supply of quality content. This is nothing new. It's good to see Dan maintain the same messaging all this time while also showing off some knowledge on growing successful products. However, one thing that is a bit clearer to me now is that the team is more focused on growing the product/platform (Warpcast) as a means to grow the use of the protocol (Farcaster). 2. Dan defines high-quality content as domain experts sharing their knowledge with commentary (and sometimes jokes if they're REALLY funny). I really don't love this approach as I believe it creates classes of users, i.e., there are good users (domain experts) and the lower class of users that engage with that content. Also, it is less clear to me now who the audience for Warpcast is if that's the kind of platform they want to create. That's a very niche use-case of Twitter. [Continued]
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raulonastool.eth 🎩 🏰
@raulonastool
3. Channels are hard to crack, and they're trying, but there's a future where they no longer exist 👀 I was a bit shocked that Channels aren't a key growth strategy as I believe they're the most interesting primitive on the protocol. I think a lot of that disconnect may be again because of how they define high-quality content. If they want channels to be like subreddits for domain experts to share commentsry on their favorite topics, then I agree the current strategy isn't working. In my mind, Farcaster is more of a web browser for the social internet of the future and channels are the web pages, so it was jarring to hear his take, but it totally makes sense based on his stated goal of growing supply of "quality content" on Warpcast.
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Dan Romero
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1. Why do channels drive growth in your opinion? 2. What incentive does someone knowledgeable about topic X or Y want to post in a channel on Farcaster vs. on Twitter, YouTube, a subreddit, etc.
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Scott Kominers
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On 2. I think relative to Twitter and other platforms I've used heavily as a creator (no experience with YouTube so I can't comment there), FC is relatively weak at: A) encouraging engagement around my expert posts in a way that makes me feel that the content was usefully received and appreciated by people (and hopefully got them thinking) and perhaps more importantly B) surfacing to me content/chatter that gives me a vector and interest to engage as an expert.
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Scott Kominers
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Like: I'm totally the type of person who's willing to write long explanatory commentaries (I've spent over a half an hour commenting on this @raulonastool thread, for example 😅), but I both don't come across many opportunities to write something like this (feed is mostly full of people posting about various tokens), and in any event there isn't much sense of reward or positive reinforcement when I do.
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