Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Virtually all of the people on Farcaster with large audiences: 1. Don't have large audiences elsewhere (Farcaster is their first time with a large audience) 2. Didn't know me or Varun and didn't know each other. The "Farcaster OG scene" is net new creation of Farcaster. 3. Were early and stuck around when everyone made fun of Farcaster (and people still do) 4. Continued to cast interesting stuff, casted in channels when we suggested people cast in channels 5. Warpcast onboarding asks all users for their interests 6. Based on the interests, we pair the account with an initial set of follows 7. There are 200+ accounts on the list, weighted toward accounts that get the most engagement / drive retention, but a large group of people benefit 8. On our list to improve, but the reality is outside of "I should be on the list!" haven't seen any concrete proposals to improve
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Stephan
@stephancill
a small note on the auto follow list ux - i've seen people be caught off guard a bit that they are already following 60 users perhaps you can add a note on the interests screen that these interests will be used to follow some accounts on your bahalf to set expectations? or maybe even preview a list of accounts that will be followed before proceeding tbh i would probably get rid of the auto follow list and just auto-follow relevant channels instead
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Stated vs. revealed preference People think they want control over who they follow, but the number 1 reason for churn is not following enough people / content. Moving to a 100% algorithmic feed would increase power law dynamic of the network.
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Stephan
@stephancill
idk what the data says but in the past you have emphasised that seeing irrelevant content in a feed is a big turn off. if you follow users based on interests instead of channels you're much more likely to see content not relevant to your interests, no?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Sure, but the challenge with channels (as I mentioned on the dev call) is they don't generate enough quality posts per day. So the best, imperfect solution, is to map interests to channels and the top users who cast in those channels. The issue on the network is supply of interesting content.
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