Patricia Lee
@patriciaxlee.eth
I wrote a reflection about my first month on Farcaster. Honest feedback is welcome. Don't worry about my feelings. I'm more interested in your POV, especially if you have a strong reaction. :) https://paragraph.com/@patriciaxlee/most-people-dont-know-how-to-be-interesting
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azb
@azbest
It’s a great read, but it misinterprets the visibility complaint. The spirit of it is often not “I’m so interesting, I should be visible!” but rather “I’m just as uninteresting as most people here, so why am I the one that is invisible?”. I don’t think it’s useful to talk about being ‘interesting’ here, though. You definitely see that while there’s some correlation between effort/competence seen in a cast and the visibility/engagement it gets, it’s usually startlingly low. The natural thing to do in such an environment is to engage in some form of undemanding circle jerk, which seems to be more cost-effective. Most will adapt to it. Or leave, as this state of play is psychologically rewarding to a very limited number of people.
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Patricia Lee
@patriciaxlee.eth
Thanks for bringing this up. It’s a valid point about social incentives, a sense of fairness, and what’s visibly rewarded. When I see these cases (low-effort, high-engagement casts), however, it usually seems to me that the engagement is earned through the person’s more consistent actions outside the cast over a period of time, like building something others want to follow and/or being involved in the community. They’ve “earned” an audience that’s with them for both high and low effort content. I’ll probably leave if it turns into a downward spiral of everyone posting low effort content all the time to get attention. Hopefully it doesnt. :)
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