Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

4. Following feeds are bad 

Everyone thinks they want a following feed. But even the people who ask for it churn faster when they get it. 

Following feeds get progressively worse as you follow more people. People used to complain that "the algo" didn't show them their friends.

This was surprising because at that time we didn't have an algo. It turned out they always followed a few people who casted 50 times a day and just drowned out everyone else.

am i the only one on following feed? 🤔

i get that they may be bad from an onboarding/churn perspective, bc people dont know what they want, or follow people theyre not actually interested in to start. but theyre good for liveness and synchronous events and topics, which are necessary for (esp crypto) social. izo

social

“You don’t need to fear the fact that algorithms exist, or even the way they now surround you. But that doesn’t mean there is nothing to fear.”

- Glenn McDonald

I no longer trust any app that doesn’t let me set a pure chronological following feed as my default. Beyond that, the best feature an app can offer is the ability to remix feeds based on my own preferences. For example, I use @recaster-fc to create custom user and channel feeds.

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I no longer trust any app that doesn’t let me set a pure chronological following feed as my default. Beyond that, the best feature an app can offer is the ability to remix feeds based on my own preferences. For example, I use @recaster-fc to create custom user and channel feeds.

https://warpcast.com/ghostlinkz.eth/0x3f8e1cc8

You know that dude is Ex-Spotify ya? 

unfortunately they let him go in a recent round of lay-offs, shame cuz dude is brilliant and made the amazing Echo Nest pre-Spotify.

Music

I really enjoyed listening to this new podcast ep about the inner workings of Spotify's algorithm with Glenn McDonald, the data alchemist behind everynoise.com

https://youtu.be/vrdxLUWSl_s

My weekend read: 

You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music

Author: Glenn McDonald

musican. ai artiste. 

designed the channel icon for /relationships 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-sera-help-her-get-back-on-her-feet

I've him on my LinkedIn (of all places) 

look forward to anything he drops

yup - been following for a while 

https://warpcast.com/ghostlinkz.eth/0x4e27f304
https://warpcast.com/ghostlinkz.eth/0xf1eeb233