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Is this the user’s fault or the platform’s fault? Excellent question by @ted. Should be asked in many situations, not just this one. Because sometimes it’s user error, sometimes it’s platform error, and sometimes it’s both.

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It's a very interesting situation to explore & it raises a few observations for me. The Platform gets to design & make decisions about that that directly impact the users experience, regardless of whatever the user can do. Platforms that don't design to make the experience beneficial for the users' end goals, will likely struggle to acquire & keep users. Making the means of rising through the ranks obscured, unclear, or unsupported disenfranchises the user base. Designing in a way that is clear about how users can benefit & move further in the goals, & supporting them in doing so, seems to me like a win for all involved. People often find & create conflict/division when there can be better paths forward through finding the aligned objectives of the various parties 🫡

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as a third error source: Is it a goal / purpose error. Short form text social networks are inheritly more like an unfiltered thought stream, that a high signal reporting platform imo. Crypto specifically has warped the perception, or rather expectation, of it into a high signal environment. Maybe survivorship bias, because we see calls being made that lead to huge gains etc. But overall the high level view of those platform is a continous stream of thoughts and if used as such can be utilized to *extract* that high signal information. (Some channel has been doing this really well on FC for example)

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FC doesn’t focus on new user experience. Examples: 1. Channel changes ruined the users experience, walled garden the moment you try and share with a community 2. Algo reply issue 3. Majority of new users who reply a lot then get marked as spam 4. It costs money to signup to a social app, which is a ridiculous hill to die on if you’re trying to scale consumer growth. Until it’s free it will ever scale

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No it’s the platform’s fault. Make me famous quicker

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This right here is a Great point. Blame rarely helps, understanding root causes on both sides is what leads to real improvement

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It's actually a culture thing. A) People go to Youtube or tiktok mainly for entertainment, knowledge and news. So creators who can make the most out of all three dimensions are rewarded. B) On short form platform like twitter, it's mainly used as a source of news, then sharing ideas and opinions. Authentic and quick news source is highly rewarded on twitter. As per opinions and ideas are flooded with arguments ranging from celebs, gossips, sports to informed opinion. Most people's content lies on celebs, gossips area as to informed opinion. Therefore, banger high quality opinion is hardly rewarded if it's from smaller account

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I think only the platform can fail at disappointing their users in discoverability. The one mistake is valuing followers over substance. In Subreddits, for example, you can provide value without requiring social proof in the form of followers. Ironically, the best accounts on X are often between 739 and 10.142 followers. Beyond that, most accounts maximize for engagement and value drops. There should be no incentive to maximize followers. Instead, there should be an incentive to maximize "value provided". Nostr has the feature for zapping microtransactions. Medium - I believed - tried to achieve this by allowing you to "heart" an article multiple times. The number one metric should be value provided measured through: "time spend reading" an article, the amount of collected $, the amount of bookmarks, etc. Following should become a much more exclusive feature that either costs $ or has other psychological barrier (i.e. you receive ALL posts as an email or notification) so you choose carefully who to follow.

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welcome back sir

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Totally agree — but blaming the user is seldom a successful growth strategy. More useful than asking who’s at fault is asking: what was the default that shaped the behavior? Because the default is the fault. And defaults are design decisions. Twitter’s default is short, acerbic takes. Instagram’s default is everyday beauty and images. Facebook’s default is the long, winded status post. TikTok’s default is a vibe-driven, moving, loop-able loop. (not woo woo vibe talkin but mood as atunement, i.e., stimmung as medium) Farcaster doesn’t need a copycat default with better decentralized permissionless infra (open data graph, mini apps, ZK credentials) Farcaster needs its own default form and fram for content. A new paradigmatic frame and form of content. What if that default The Farcast were a front-facing, thoughtful, peripatetic video? (Farcaster could do this with a few simple features and design choices: a video reply button and auto-captioning feature—the captions could be distinctive purple kareoke captions so when they’re shared on other plafroms others will learn to recognize the captions as the mark of farsighted thinking) Not selfie sermons but situated speech. Not dunks but dialogue. Not content but communication. Not static but in motion. A “Farcast” could be part forecast, part broadcast. A vessel for thinking aloud. For meaning that is embodied, not outsourced. A new civic form of communication suitable for denizens of network states! Farcast (noun): A front-facing container for authentic human expression and communication. For embodied meaning situated in time and place through a person’s voice, face, and body. Non-robotic. Non-algorithmic. Not generated by artificial intelligence but by human intelligence.

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Welcome back to Farcaster

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I was very impressed by Ted's thoughts. I didn't understand the advantages of Farcaster or why it was necessary to change the specifications for long-form posts, but I can understand it from the user's point of view.

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Farcaster is going off.

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Farcaster is lit today✨

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Hmm.. help section or guide section of app or platform should be easily accessible.

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After a long time. Welcome Sir

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Welcome back Chad!

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