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** The Farcaster Middle Class ** (my /firstdraft )
'America was built on the backs of the middle class' is a popular quote & every political campaign in the US has to deal with how to build up the 'middle class.'
I think Farcaster has the same issue to consider. Prompted by @miguelgarest.eth cast this morning about the need for a 'full reset of the engagement power for all accounts,' I want to suggest that a lot of the algo issues could be dealt with by 'building up the middle class' of Farcaster.
I think, by most accounts, the 'upper class' is doing well. If you take the top 100 accounts that the algo likes they are getting good engagement, giving off lots of points, & often on the trending feed. Some of those accounts are large and have trouble getting high on the Rewards leaderboard, but in many cases they are making money in other ways on Farcaster to offset that difficulty. I don't want to single people out but in my mind this would be accounts like @toadyhawk.eth @adrienne @nounishprof @tldr -- who I know well enough to single out 😀 as examples of top 100 accounts (upper class), for whom it's tough to get high on the leaderboard, but they also have other opportunities on FC.
Also, doing well are new accounts that get introduced & hyped by OGs and the FC team who are (at least) temporarily put into the upper class.
I think both of the above are good things for Farcaster.
The middle class is probably 500 accounts that are here daily, most don't have their own projects or they are small. They are supporting other builders, sharing daily life, building community, learning, & being great qDAUs. But, they are fighting to get leaderboard points, they don't give many leaderboard points, and they don't have many other opportunities (or don't create them) and therefore feel a bit passed over because of the amount of time and effort they put in. Their reward, often, is to see a cast with 2 recasts and 8 likes show up on trending while their 30 likes and 10 recasts never touch trending. Their 'bangers' give them 450 leaderboard points while the top 30 are shoveling points in by the thousands with a pickleball photo. Again, giving a few examples of the great middle class that fit this description that I know well enough to name: @hankmoody @pichi @burrrrrberry & a one off example quoted below of @chriscocreated releasing an app that never hit the trending (look at the numbers, just like miguel's quoted cast I think he said never hit the trending)
I like @miguelgarest.eth suggestion of a reset of power. I want to suggest that whatever could be done to the algo to identify the middle class and build them up would serve Farcaster as well as it has America when it has focused on the middle class.
How to do that is beyond my pay grade. Can devs do something??? 🤣
I have more thoughts on who they are, how to identify them, & how to reward them. So, hit me up if you are in a position to do something, and maybe I need to expand this into a full @paragraph article
Thank you for coming to my political rally for the Farcaster Middle Class.
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