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i’ve given this some thought judging by the comments on @ted’s cast, channels are clearly the biggest hurdle new users face here i think the issue plays into spam; in feb, these channels were open to anyone, which resulted in a ton of useless noise, specifically during the rise of the bots this led to channels getting gated, restricting everyone from posting unless they were invited by a mod & thus made a member this means new users not only have to go search for the mod but have to reach out for an invite—which depending on the account, may end up in the mods spam DC folder anyway—never to be seen the trade-off here is that channels are now much more curated at the expense of open discovery i propose that channels be opened up again, especially now with the new spam tooling yes, this will invite spam once again to that end, i propose @jacek rewards mods with the 1M/week degen allocation, instead of coat tailing fc rewards
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Channels are open now by default btw But yes, still agree this is a tricky balance Still love channels, think they're an important primitive
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yeah but are generally closed to prevent spam & enable curation—again at the expense of distribution & discovery—a particular hurdle for new users may be that large, broad channels like “fitness” need to be opened indefinitely while smaller, niche, or more personal channels can be closed likely requires testing, but this is the number one complaint in ted’s original cast so something needs to be done
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