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Totally agree. Which brings us back to my OP! 😁

We are at the scaling stage where we're expanding the cozy corner it has become here, and new users are churning out because of this problem with bootstrapping a new network. 

If the mechanisms we focus on to engage new users focus too much on the PVP, trading, and making money, relationships built on conversation and depth will be lost. The cozy corner will turn into the trenches. 

https://warpcast.com/nicovrg/0x60197847

Feels like a common problem for Farcaster. 

I think Warpcast has done a good job with curation and spam reduction... But in the process it hasn't stimulated a "conversation culture".

You don't get any direct reputation value out of replying to ppl's casts. So ppl just QC instead. 

Making lots of low quality replies also punishes you, which is good. It's cut down on the pointless +1 replies.

What we don't have is any incentive to actually start real conversations with ppl. To reply to ppl to give them validation we liked their post. 

Basically there's no mechanic that rewards friendships. On a platform that is hyper focused on reward incentives, having the most important activity be the least incentivized is what results in users feeling like they are "shouting into the void".

Warpcast is doing great things, but what's really needed is to make conversations great again.

Ideas, anyone?

Love how this conversation helped me flesh out my original thought and I made a new friend in the process! 

This kind of magic only happens in the replies! 

If you're trying to figure out how to find your cozy corner in the Farcaster community, this is my advice: 

Find channels on topics you're interested in, and join them! Meet people in the replies and have conversations, even tho it does nothing to directly impact any rewards you might get other than friendship and conversation!

Love how this conversation helped me flesh out my original thought and I made a new friend in the process! 

This kind of magic only happens in the replies! 

If you're trying to figure out how to find your cozy corner in the Farcaster community, this is my advice: 

Find channels on topics you're interested in, and join them! Meet people in the replies and have conversations, even tho it does nothing to directly impact any rewards you might get other than friendship and conversation! 

https://warpcast.com/trigs/0x644ae974

The mechanic for rewarding friendships and interactions are the friendships and interactions themselves, no? 

The network-protocol-client-whatever can facilitate it but it’s ultimately on the end users to 1) recognise the inherent value of talking to people and 2) interact and sustain relationships.

I think this is good advice but how about the fear of being labeled spam?