Farcaster

Not having the ability to post a single cast in more than one channel is holding Farcaster back.

Music

Classical

Electronic Music

Video Game Music・ゲーム音楽

Frontend

Backend

fc-updates

Farcaster Devs

Mini Apps

europoooooor

Southeast Asia

America

Prague

/frontend dev (HTML/CSS)・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・contributor /ethglobal /walletbeat・hackathon bounty hunter・music maker・dropout・nomad・25

Just think about it.

Some topics are umbrella topics for others:
• /music for /classical /electronic /videogamemusic
• /dev for /frontend /backend /evm
• /farcaster for /fc-updates /fc-devs /miniapps
• Continents/countries/cities like /europoooooor /sea /america /prague /los-angeles

Food

Travel

I Took a Photo!

I Took A Video!

Podcasts

Events

hackathons

ETHGlobal

Apple

devcon SEA

ETHDenver

For Farcaster to truly become the one true social network and reflect all the rich experiences we have to share, we NEED to stop siloing interesting content into one-dimensional channels.

Allowing a top-level cast to exist in multiple channels would fix all of these discovery problems once and for all.

But right now I'm forced to choose between an umbrella channel with thousands of followers, and a niche channel with effectively tens. Both feel like equally casting into the void.

"Crossposting" by quotecasting my own cast doesn't help, because it fractures engagement and the original content is obscured by an embed.

Some topics apply to every place and walk of life. /food. /travel. /itookaphoto /itookavideo.

Others are temporary Schelling Points for discussions about other topics, many of which end up becoming timeless. Think /podcasts, /events, /hackathons like /ethglobal, or conferences like /apple /devcon /ethdenver.

Building: signal wars Trading Game|                                         in love with charts📈📉
Auditor

that sounds awesome, now the hard part is convincing the merkle team to think about it

Perhaps a limit of two or three to start, contingent on channel moderators opting in? I think it's totally manageable.

con: easier for slop to appear in more than one channel but the idea is still an absolutely great one

Running

Fitness

Veni Vidi Vibes... Fitness, Photography, Fuckin around and finding out

/running & /fitness would be a 🔥 combination

"But channels are not hashtags"

I daresay real hashtags haven't been tried. We have so many new primitives at our disposal: LLMs, channel permissions, social reputation.

Surely there's a cozy middle in between hashtag anarchy and what we have now, which is content trapped in undiscoverable silos and a home feed that doesn't feel shaped to my interests.

@quicknode GTM | building /startupradar 📡                                 rants and travel photos are my own

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