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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
PSA about the new version of channels 1. They're no longer single topics / hashtags. We tried hashtags for a year and they didn't work. There's no canonical /food channel anymore. Instead, there will be many smaller groups about a topic. 2. The best way to think about the new version of channels — a text-based Twitter Space. There's a group of people (members) "on stage" who can post new stuff in the channel, and a larger group in the "audience". However, anyone in the audience can reply and get discovered / invited to the channel. We've improved how replies work (and making it easy to invite from replies) in the last 24 hours. 3. Casting in your home feed, i.e. no channel, will give you just as much distribution in the algo. We have not been boosting casts from channels you follow but people you don't follow for a while. The results were too inconsistent. 4. Our next big focus will be onboarding new users directly to channels when joining Farcaster.
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tim/vortac
@vortac
Have you ever thought about an additional meta-categorization system for channels? That could possibly make it easier to find relevant content in a group of thematically related channels? In addition to being a follower or member of one or more of these channels, you could “subscribe” to topic-based tags and then follow an entire cluster of channels directly or indirectly. I am particularly interested in (digital) art topics. What I painfully noticed again in the course of the channel changeover, when I sent out invites for /the-library and went through the follower list, was how many artists have left FC again, many of whom I also brought on board at the time. I think that the fragmentation of the art channels is part of the problem and I often ask myself in which channel I should best place the post so that it gets the most visibility. You get the feeling that a lot of information gets lost and doesn't reach enough recipients because it's not bundled.
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ChrisCoCreated
@chriscocreated
how do we help people find their corner of the Internet - with their people. I know for me that the large /art channel was a horrible mess. I think the fragmentation is a good thing if each artist can find a home. Creating those conditions is the challenge.
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