humpty
@humpty.eth
ICYMI @dwr.eth dropped tons of alpha on the Official Channels Day livestream It’s clear he recognizes channels are a valuable community building tool on Farcaster. However, he believes discovery and retention aren’t working well with the current model. He enthusiastically shared his thoughts on how LLMs could help surface conversations via topics which could then be used to drive engagement to likeminded people in subgroups and communities. He acknowledged the challenge is unlearning old models and behaviors, helping people on Farcaster feel as part of the process, and moving forward together. Do you think AI can help us innovate new models for engagement or are we better off with human curated experiences?
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Colin Charles
@bytebot
banger! do you have the whole livestream recorded somewhere? if youtube, we could just get a transcript quickly with NotebookLM. back on topic - i do like the idea of the algorithm helping you discover topics you're interested in, but i suspect there has to be a lot more tuning for this to work, such that you find the people that post about said topics. also, people tend not to cast about a certain topic only - wide and varied casts are actually a good thing. upon onboarding - people need to understand what channels are. i often use the usenet newsgroup analogy, but i suspect it falls flat on many people who have never used usenet! so what's the easy fix? maybe actually just calling channels what it is - a group? words matter. unsure if LLMs will help us figure out topics we like better frankly. also, trending topics run more often rather than once per day with human interaction is probably a good idea. thats a flywheel for figuring out whats the hype du jour
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humpty
@humpty.eth
From the conversation I had with Dan it seems he’s thinking of entirely new models for discovery on Farcaster. Not your typical social algo. Topics would be a funnel for conversations happening in realtime to engage with subgroups. The hard part imo is how we’d create communities from that. Again, I think Dan and the team are thinking deeply about this to present the best and most innovative solution. Here’s the link to the full livestream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ivn5dCAvjnw
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