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some of the most interesting content on reddit is often from throwaway or pseudonym accounts which are essentially “anon” to all other users: - advice posts for sensitive situations or most ask men/women posts, like what’s the best thing your ex did in bed - AITAH - NoStupidQuestions - confessions this content digs at the complexity of human nature, often with unfiltered, authentic perspectives, that appeals to millions of users. this type of content on the anon accounts doesn’t get good engagement (and none seems to have graduated to the X account), perhaps due to public likes or the flat nature of reply threads where it seems like only one person is conversing. instead, the majority of content that breaks through is the same content that’d break through without anon accounts: memes, shills, and dunks. and because anon is still relatively small, the breakthrough content risks reading as in-group. excited to watch these projects continue to iterate because i see it as a big, big opportunity.
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I agree with your take @ted. As a longtime former Reddit user, I very much valued and enjoyed the candid long form confessions but also debates that anonymity unlocked there. I suspect Farcaster started out as mostly doxxed accounts because it was largely an IRL in-group of loosely related individuals from within the same industry and geography. But over time the network needs its healthy share of anon users who don’t feel the need to maintain a certain mainstream public persona and who can push the boundaries of discourse
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Have you been posting anon much? And written about experience doing so? I'd like to hear.
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@yerbearserker I agree with ted's take
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The medium is the message - ANON was started by a SuperCast user and solidified by a crypto developer. The audience is very crypto and so the breakthrough posts are very crypto. It might be we need specific anon accounts for specific types of content (ie love advice, AITAH, TIFU) to see breakthroughs of other types.
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I wonder when anon posting will lead to people posting wrong information and/or ragebait just for the sake of conversation. I've read that post about the woman who, when she has a coding question, purposely asks the question earnestly and then goes and posts under another account providing an absolute wrong answer. She does this because people like correcting people more than they like helping people. possibly /lessoninthere
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I think the owners of these channels should be using ANON to promote their use!
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Do you think the good content is in the original post or the replies? For threads like you describe I find the gold in the replies most often. Frequently from non throwaway accounts. But anonymity gets the conversation going 100%!
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this is on point @nir @kyle worth thinking about how anoncast (protocol) might come alive in channels, ie is their a product that could be shipped around a specific topic that would consistently be useful for people interested in hiding identity but engaging? think if farcaster is going to see more of what ted describes above we need to prompt it, because I haven't seen any "is my gorgeous wife/handsome lover not happy in bed?" posting here (sadly)
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Similar thing is happening in open source community. Anons build useful and high quality projects because they don’t want their real name to be associated with their playwork. Others do it to avoid obligations towards users of their work. In both cases people want to detach from their daily persona and express themselves through a purview of their work.
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"constraints drive creativity" is important here IMO. Adding in more examples like confessions, overheard, [college] secrets, blind— the thing they have in common is a niche or intended "type" of post, rather than just an anon firehouse of anything. the niche inspires content and also helps moderate
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A lot of that reddit content is also an attempt at creative writing and karma farming which wouldn't be possible on anon accounts here. yet..
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Token distribution is key for a wide range of voices. You want a large group of users holding as a sunk cost rather than investment. The friction between discovery, thought, decision, purchase, proof & post is a lot of steps for an off the cuff cast. In regards to the "in group" feed, it's not suprising with only 97 wallets holding enough to curate crossposting. A few of those addresses are smart contracts and LPs, some might hold multiple wallets, and amongst the remaining there is likely a small demographic that was early and can afford to hold so there's less diversity of thought than a random sample of Reddit upvoters. https://dune.com/nuconomy/anon-anonymity-sets It would be good if there were a free/low-cost way to upvote content, but shillers have an incentive to game that so it is a challenge too. I prefer the unfiltered feed to make up my own mind about what is interesting. Bangers is anoncast's equivilant of the 𝕏 algo but it's a small group of crypto natives instead of a Musk model.
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interesting enough, hardcore Reddit users tend to say that a lot of these anon accounts are engagement farmers posting salacious things that tend to get upvoted
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