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Are Channels Still the Future of Farcaster? (🧵) I used to think so. Now? Not so sure. Back in April 2024, spam was everyone’s problem on Farcaster. Then the channel overhaul happened and shifted the spam burden to hosts. If your channel is full of spam, it’s on you: Gate better. Moderate harder. Ban faster. It’s exhausting and most channel hosts have ignored it or automated it, confusing new folks and aggravating old ones who can’t cast into channels freely. Fast forward to April 2025: spammers got smarter. The current model aggressively flags most users as low-value. 80% of casts are orphaned—no replies, no recasts, no likes. Worse, casting into channels doesn’t trigger spam labels, which flipped the whole dynamic and spammers gravitate to casting into some channels hoping for visibility.

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These are my questions for all of you: • To gate or not to gate? • Is anyone even posting in channels? • Does anyone scroll them? • Are channels just for farmers (and not the FarmVille kind)? • Can a community survive on a single pinned cast?

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To gate or not to gate? Gating was crucial over the summer and fall and definitely keeps the majority of farmers out of specific channels, but now I see fewer and fewer posts in the channels I used to frequent. Sure there isn’t as much spam, but there isn’t much of anything else. Do we still need gates? Should most channels be public unless there is a good reason to keep the gate? I’m struggling with what to do with most of my channels. Many are in public mode now to experiment.

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Is anyone even posting in channels? When I check my own home feed, it’s a mix of casts into channels and casts to the home feed. I tend to cast into channels so that folks don’t get a spam label if I miss their reply, but I’m unsure if others give it that much thought or prefer to let the algorithm sort it all out. Since channels are low priority, it feels as if most people have given up on them.

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I'm going to reply here, but it pertains to your various questions. Warpcast has a structural issue with how it holds/gathers attention in places (like channels). The space is primarily a river of posts where it's hard to curate/collect/structure into any greater pool of content value. People who are established get better visibility on posting in no channel, and therefore end up posting in no channel vs reduced visibility in channels where things just flow out of attention quickly. A lack of structural tools means that channel founders, with only a single pinned post, are very limited in how they can curate their channel. I'd say that to reduce it into very simplistic terms... farcaster is a rapidly flowing feed, with no 'spaces'. Right now the only place to really gather, hold, attention is in Frames. This is why I'm building out the Empire Builder Discord to better structure and organize information, resources, conversation. I'd love to do it here, but it's impossible as things are currently.

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So many great points. 500 $DEGEN

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Thank you 🫡 Makes me curious/think about what sort of solutions could be created... Actually.. I'm going to tag @willywonka.eth into this b/c it could be something that nounspace could potentially structure as a big value add for users/communities. They already have several pieces of it, but I could see the ability to structure the interface with static and dynamic elements that could greatly assist with community curation...

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+100 to all points above. This thread makes me miss the "old days" of channels (<1 year ago lol). If we think of channels broadly as a place for communities to form and hang out, I am still bullish on that as a concept/opportunity. Unfortunately today's channels aren't as good of a solution for this as channels a year ago. Like @pichi says, the downfall started when the channel overhaul shifted the burden of spam to hosts, exacerbated by the fact that there were no great native solutions for easily/automatically managing channels, and like @yerbearserker said, channels are just streams of posts for the most part (plus a bio, single link/frame, pinned post, and cover photo), without much flexibility for customization and functionality. It's not too late for channels to make a comeback. We just need to reduce the friction for real users to join, improve content sorting algos, make moderation easier/automatic, and give communities the best tools and experience for building their perfect online home.

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We floated this idea for default + customizable channel spaces while ago and had a lot of interest: warpcast.com/willywonka.eth/0xf69fd09e We're pushing a major update next week and then shifting our focus to the latest evolution of this concept: enabling any community to deploy their own platform like nounspace 😎

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Sounds solid! Lmk if you’d like to have a catch up to talk Empire Builder > Nounspace flows 🫡

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