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

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.

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.

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.

Svelte

United States of America

opensource

Local-first Dev

computerscience

Vibe Coding

aichannel

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Case in point: this gem from @annika combining /frontend × /fashion.

How would you ever discover this if you were already following both channels, she were to post this without a channel, you weren’t already following her, and no one bothered to quote-cast it into the relevant channels?

https://farcaster.xyz/darrylyeo/0x0a7a6ec9

"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.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Now to figure out whether to quotecast my /svelte news in /frontend, or my /frontend news in /svelte, or my national news in /america or /usa, or my /dev news in /opensource or /localfirst or /computerscience or /vibecoding or /aichannel or /theai or /ai, or...