Varun Srinivasan
@v
I spent a little time with casters at FC who complained about not getting enough distribution. I found three problems that affected most casters. If you want to increase your distribution, try fixing these first.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
1. Not enough followers One of the people I talked to had 10 followers and was surprised they had no engagement. You absolutely need to build a following. A good rule of thumb is that if you have 1k followers, then 100 may be online today, 50 may scroll enough to see your cast and 5 of them may like it. If you don't have 1k followers, work on fixing that. Just posting casts won't get you more followers. You also need to reply or interact with others so they notice you and click follow. It's important that these interactions are helpful to others. If you are simply trying to farm follows, people will notice and it will have the opposite effect.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
2. Cast interesting things I looked at another account where the last 10 posts were automated shares of miniapps. There wasn't a single original word they had written. It's important that you share something unique that people might find interesting. If you're sharing a miniapp, add a little commentary about why you're using it. If you're sharing a link, tell people your thoughts about it. People follow you for your personality, make sure it comes through.
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Semidoxxed
@semidoxxed.eth
Hey @v this is a timely post and thank you. As a new, casual user I've had the same type of thoughts myself... even wondering if I was being shadow-banned or something. Then I started wondering if me not getting much interaction was a purposeful feature of Farcaster to limit the dilution of coolness from Normies. At the same time, I'm also recognizing that Farcaster is still a fairly small community so having less engagement is to be expected. The thing is, I'm not trying to be an influencer, I'm not trying to be a KOL, and I'm not trying to be a leading-edge content creator. I don't need a thousand followers or want to strategize about ways to grow my following. I just want to be a normal online dude who gets to interact with a community and not feel like I'm on the outside. I think the onus of how users end up feeling when they're interacting with a platform should be kind of on the platform creators - not fully on the users, unless that's an explicit feature. Anyways, hope this is somewhat helpful.
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seb
@seb
If the person has a rich presence on other networks or strong onchain social graph, that’s going to deter new people
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@truemarkets
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