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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Got a couple of questions about the new /gift-economics channel launched by the Studio Slowcore team a couple of weeks ago, so here's some info about how we set it up. Before launching, we sketched out a basic plan for the channel in a private group chat of about 20 active members who share a common interest in long reads. Many of us in the group chat think the Farcaster community will need to double down on channels-as-cozy-corners if we want slow-burn growth that compounds over time. So we decided to "be the change we wish to see." We wanted a space for slow-paced deep dives in text format. We knew that approach wouldn't be compatible with the short half-life of casts as determined by the algo feeds... but still, it's Farcaster all the way down for us. So we set out to do the best we can on Farcaster with the tools we have. Next we set expectations so that everyone in the group knows: - They're welcome to comment on threads in-channel long after the algo feeds bury them. They can tag any of the mods to make sure their comments get seen. - For our Gift Economics Roundtable initiative, the mods curate a few best-of-channel convos and turn them into @paragraph posts as full conversations. (We edit the convos for clarity, and obtain full permission of all participants before publishing). We just released the first of these posts. - Members get advance notice about some of the articles we've got in our pipeline before we cast about them publicly. So anyone who wants to discuss the articles in-channel can take time to read and gather their thoughts before commenting. - Mods often quote-cast thoughtful comments and invite further contributions to the original threads. This list is our toolkit of work-arounds to encourage long-form evergreen discussions on Farcaster in defiance of the algo that only prioritizes what's newest.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
cc @kenny who might appreciate this effort to prioritize ongoing conversations even though we still don't have reply-bumping.
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Vinay Débrou ⚙️
@vinaydebrou.eth
trust, reciprocity, defiance of the algorithm 🌻 would love to be a part of these persisting conversations in the groupchat
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bradq
@bradq
@procoin curate FARCAST
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