Biggydaddy.eth on Farcaster

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Recently, big accounts with 100k+ followers are seeing ~50% drops in reach. Meanwhile, new accounts with ~1k followers are hitting over 10k+ views on many casts. How? Not virality. Not timing. Not engagement loops or community building. Boosting. Algorithmic. Intentional. Undisclosed. Read more below and if you like what I write, please check out @paragraph new support features for writers!

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Starting to feel like the algorithm rewards who you are to them, not just what you post. Boosting is the new shadow hierarchy.

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There have been a few boosting experiments but never to this magnitude.

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This one right here is alarming, I just hope something is done, after a few days of new accts getting f boost it should reset back to normal than all what is going on IMO

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Looks like it’s a 30 day boost.

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Damn!, I keep losing sleep casting like never before thinking I wasn’t trying enough, I just realized now that I wasn’t the prob. Thanks for the info.

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It’s been really crazy, especially the last 4 weeks or so.

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Ngl it’s been crazy, going forward I think we can always make a pill about this kinda algo boost, it really unfair to others tbh.

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I think most people are seeing it now and realizing maybe your content doesn’t actually suck, maybe you just aren’t even playing the same game.

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Exactly, I begging to diversify on my contents, running here and there just to get it right, but I have come to realize it is not a me problem.

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@jonathancolton is giving away a free ebook right now talking about how hard distribution is. It’s not Farcaster specific, but it mirrors it. Discovery and distro are really hard. I think TikTok is one of the few algos that really gets it right. I’ve been buying ebooks on Amazon and rating them for like 12 years. They still can’t recommend me a damn book that I will like. I don’t envy anyone working on this problem. I am excited about what @mjc716 is working on and the team at Cura with @sahil for channels. A lot of it comes down to curation. We have to do it. And then we have to expand it to let the community do it even more. We are still too small for an algo to rule us.

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