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Varun Srinivasan
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We're shutting down the x-posting experiment. For a few months, we've been testing a feature with a few users to cross posts their tweets from X to Farcaster. We're shutting it down because we can't get it to work reliably with the current APIs, and when it fails it's really frustrating for users.
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Varun Srinivasan
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Difference in content types make this really hard to work 100%. It's also not achieving the goal of increasing conversations. People who x-post don't use the app any more frequently. People who see x-posts are les likely to engage because the content isn't authentic to FC.
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Varun Srinivasan
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Our view (at least for now) is that x-posting will not work to scale Farcaster. While it might work for social media type apps that are primarily about content consumption, Farcaster is about conversations and a x-post without a presence on the app isn't that meaningful to other users.
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Vinay Vasanji
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I've never liked the idea of cross posting content — it comes across as lazy or perhaps inauthentic Context matters for communication, and context sparks conversations
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allenbarth
@allenbarth.eth
I unknowingly clicked on an X-post and was confused about finding myself in X! At first, I did not make the connection. I'm a Pioneer(2009) member of CouchSurfing and feel that the commensurate community is found in these places. CS has over 14 million GLOBAL members! (Me on the left) 🌍 🗣️ 👣 🎨
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Pichi 🟪🍖🐹🎩 🍡🌸
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I personally didn’t like it because it was like talking to a wall. The best part of Farcaster is meeting people and getting to have real conversations. I hug people IRL when I meet them now. I’ve never hugged anyone I met on Twitter or Discord. I ended up muting all the accounts that were cross posting because there was no point to talk to them, and I didn’t want to get a spam label when they didn’t reply to me.
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