Farcaster

i finally had time to dig into the new update with channels. to build a culture around a channel, it's a good idea to focus on a membership approach

permission-based cozy corners make sense:

- you need an invite to cast, but it's open to everyone to read. you could filter invites by someone's onchain activity
- today, for every piece of content, you need to think about which channel (hashtag) to cast it in. after this, you'll mainly cast on the home feed, while more conversation-oriented casts will go into channels you're part of
- it kinda solves our issue with DCs. it's easier to interact with messages in a channel

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If you haven’t listened to the Farcaster dev call, you should. There are some big changes coming to channels. 

I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I do like how some of it sounds but I also have concerns about limiting the visibility of channel content. 

I’ll reserve judgement until learning more. 

https://youtu.be/sCN5I2uM02I?si=-eXGU6yXk1GeO20P

Wrote some thoughts on the new channels update that's coming.

tl;dr definitely think it makes sense to lean into the "cozy corners" over the broader "hashtag" channels. Seems like the question when casting will now be if you're trying have a nuanced convo w friends or just posting as you would on Twitter.

There's some channels that are clearly hashtags such as /books /founders that will need to niche down. And there are some today that are clearly cozy corners such as /latenightcrew /six.

But it'll be interesting to see how the "middle" channels will adapt. For example, how do subtle topics such as /techarchive or location channels like /new-york or company channels like /paragraph look like?

In the short term, there will definitely be chaos, pushback, etc. But in the long run, the corners should keep new users engaged long enough to "hook" them. THE MOST IMPORTANT part of this channels update will be reducing the friction of finding homes new users resonate with

https://terminallyonchain.xyz/cozycorners

watch from min 27: https://warpcast.com/maretus.eth/0xbd2675b2 
read yb's take:

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watch from min 27: https://warpcast.com/maretus.eth/0xbd2675b2 
read yb's take: https://warpcast.com/yb/0x7c3d9039