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These are the vibes we should avoid imo Status games are a slippery slope and there are already a bunch of “social” apps available if people want to play them

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feels more like it's a temporary band aid solution to a larger problem with surfacing new users in the feed

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Yeah I think so too but I think there are also better solutions here (and I’m sure the Merkle team and others will continue to experiment)

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i agree. curious to hear what your ideas are for better solutions automating the process of identifying new accounts that produce good content seems like a hard problem

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Lean into invites more given that most new users are invited by current users Allow new users to be boosted to their inviter’s graph and even explicitly show that connection across the UI to add credibility Invites — and even just follows — are great forms of vouches with some built-in degree of accountability

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i love the idea of leaning on invites + follow graphs more

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we looked at this a while ago and.... boy, would you be unhappy if we started showing invited users by default. a lot of users are indiscriminate with their invites. so you have to get good at identifying the users that are good at inviting other good users, which of course you can only know if you know who the good users are to begin with. at which point, you're basically solving the "find good users" problem with extra steps.

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I’d be curious to see how this changed if you a) limited each user’s invites and b) started displaying who invited who If I saw that someone I follow invited a bunch of low-quality users I would consider unfollowing them, maybe even reaching out It would create some accountability and, in turn, intentionality imo

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We used to do both a and b in early versions of Warpcast. We ended up removing it because it creates invite anxiety - the well intentioned users get more cautious and are reluctant to invite other people. So you miss out on potential good people in order to get higher signal on already invited people, which imo is the wrong tradeoff. Better to invite everyone you can and get good at identifying the good casters.

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The problem that i think we need to solve is the cold start problem. If you make a new account today and cast a lot of interesting stuff it will go into the void. You need to reply to other people and get them to like/follow you to really take off, which is not something that a lot of people understand. Boosts sort of solve this problem by giving these new users a way to break into other people's timelines without having to do the reply dance.

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I think a lot of the dynamics of social networks can be linked back to their IRL counterparts. When I’m at a house party and meet someone new my first question is often “how do you know the host?” or “who do you know here?” (in a friendly and curious way, not like some exclusive frat party). A Farcaster channel is no different: I want some background on how this person ended up here (who invited them, friends or interests we have in common, etc) and that helps set the context for how I engage with them.

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