Listen, everyone is a critic and a Monday morning quarterback but I feel like channels were such a big missed opportunity for Farcaster. For the protocol and the client. Under-invested and not explored nearly long enough to definitively say they wouldn’t grow DAU, imo.

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Twitter Communities has been pretty nice for some topics tbh
Feels like channels with actual reach 

As someone that used Reddit a lot two crypto cycles ago, I still quite like the idea of subreddits/channels - don't need to grow an audience for a specific topic, just gotta post good content...

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Yeah it's a damn shame
I remember spam being real bad here in 2024 (and I do still see a lot of low quality / spammy content in undermoderated channels), but deprioritizing channels was an L

Both are great examples of the possibilities. With Farcaster, there was a path to these channels being completely open and programmatic. Granted, moderation was a problem, but there were a lot of solutions popping up to help with that before channels got nerfed.