How to be good at Farcaster

1. Cast often, mostly in channels
2. Focus on being a quality reply-or to build a following
3. Make internet friendships and deepen relationships via DM
4. Don't overthink it

I’m in what Amazon calls “disagree but commit” mode with the channels model. I think it doesn’t really work ever, and subredditverse is sort of the exception that proves the rule. Reality doesn’t like to color within our lines, even bottom-up, permissionless, folksonomic ones.

But happy to be proved wrong.

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I'm not thinking in terms of reach/audience, though those are fair considerations. I'm thinking in terms of the procrustean bed effects on the *types* of conversations that can happen. In the long term, there are strong limiting effects if you effectively squeeze an undifferentiated public conversation into silos.

The other thing to consider is your already have a large audience, so the extra work of channels doesn't really matter for you. But for a lot of people, the best way to build an audience and find like-minded people is through well-maintained channels.

The metrics have already proven otherwise?

The system also works if you don't want to be bothered. You get all the casts from channels in your home feed from people you follow. People who follow you see your casts.

Basically, closer to a curated, non-cringe hashtag than a forum.

had a similar thinking. but it has changed lately for me positively. don't know how and why