timdaub on Warpcast

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🌶️ The problem here isn’t that Highlights and Following tabs are in the wrong order, it’s that there are basically no good posters on Farcaster. Scrolling through What’s Hot on Bluesky should be a wake up call to get more non-builders casting

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100%. Finding good posters is difficult here. Im spending more time on the search filters than on the suggested feeds. And i started muting bots that post often but uninteresting things. Getting a quality feed seems like it will take some work. Need more posters AND more ways to find interesting ones.

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if I may suggest, u probably need to follow way more people than just 70

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Actual question. Why would that be true? If im a new user starting from scratch. Why should i need to build up more than 100 follows to start finding content. A follow is something that should happen after you discover interesting new content, not as a prerequisite.

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idk, tbh, but I just mass followed ppl blindly and my feed is pretty good. I think others had the same observation, or not?

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Wondering if that is something in the protocol design of farcaster. Where you need to have a large bumber of follows to be sent content. Would have some implications for how to onboard users.

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I think it has to do with the active user base being tiny. Check farcaster.network, I think it‘s only 100 ppl that have > 100 casts. We are small but I think we bond a lot. Might be that we haven‘t even crossed Dunbar‘s number 😵‍💫

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@0x99fran it is a really weird social thing. E.g. I remember when Viners arrived on YT after it shut down. Or @dwr.eth said in a talk at a16z: A new social network mints a whole new set of main characters. Those that were disenfranchised on the respective other platform.

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Interesting numbers. 13 k users, 8k with less than 10 casts. My first few posts were just trying it out. Casts into the void. The next few were engaging on conversations like this one. One possible gap here is getting those users to start engaging in conversations. I expect they not seeing conversations that grab them.

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