Dan Romero on Farcaster

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Looking for people who are frustrated with the changes and new direction for channels. Last week, we got a lot of good feedback from people happy with / excited about the changes. See below. Now I want to highlight what's still not working for people. Specifically: 1. What's frustrating? 2. What would make it better? https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xcf622e07

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The main thing that I find myself looking for is the way to become a member. From my experience there are lots of different ways (gated, not possible, free to enter etc.) but it's actually not clear if and how I can join. Some channels have it as a link, some others as a pinned cast but there is no clear and standardized path.

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I think we could use some guidance on what channels “should be” in the future. How big is too big? How niche should we be? Should /food even exist or should that be a “category” we can sort our channels into? I think most people are unsure what to do with their channels. This is a big cultural shift and any though leadership would be appreciated.

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a lot of messages from @paybot (and @swapbot) are getting posted below the fold it's really annoying to have to be a member of every channel to solve this as people use paybot in all sorts of channels i'm not necessarily familiar with especially frames posted from paybot with the cast action (that don't have a bot command summoning paybot to reply)

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I think the only frustration now is that you can’t just cast a topic in a channel you feel it’s meant for anytime you want.

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1. What's frustrating? There are too many channel owners who are inactive or absent, which slows down the overall engagement and growth of the channels. Additionally, the forced termination of the streak maintenance feature was discouraging for many users who used it as a motivation to stay engaged with FC. Lastly, when sharing a frame, it’s frustrating to realize later that I’m not subscribed to a channel, which forces me to cancel the cast. 2. What would make it better? A system to better manage inactive or absent channel owners would help keep channels active and engaging. It would also be great if there was a way to reintroduce the streak maintenance feature in some form, as it was a key motivator for many users. Finally, improving the UX by automatically checking if users are subscribed to a channel before allowing them to share frames would reduce the need to cancel casts.

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One thing that would be useful is that every channel requires to specify a way to become a member when creating it. It could be a hypersub, owning a fan token or another token, and so on. Not every channel has the "instructions" in the pinned.

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Why remove the owners of channel info? it was not really necessary before, but it kinda is now if you want to ask a channel owner to join their channel and has been removed? Used to be you could see the owner on warpcast.

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It feels way less fun to explore. It's all gated communities now.

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A clear set of rules to start with. If theybare kicked out, please for god sake specify the reason so people can try and correct it. This coild make life easier

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Thanks @dwr.eth 🙏 Tbh I do not love that I have to approve members now in order for them to post. I’d much rather this be a feature that can be turned on or off rather than always on.

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Not being grandfathered into channels an unnecessary friction For instance, I minted the /books channel nft #4 — would have been nice to have duration of engagement tied to automated membership As a channel owner, I don’t want to deal with the headaches of moderation and invites — maybe I should give them up, but feels like something that was fun has turned into a chore and I have better things to do with my time

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Many channels, some of which have followers in the thousands or even tens of thousands, turned many active participants into de facto lurkers with no casting privileges. Spam is down, sure, but so is a lot of worthwhile community dialogue. Farcaster feels blander and more sterile.

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trying to cast into a channel and seeing that I’m not a member so I have to cast into feed maybe find a way to join a channel in cast (if permissions allow)

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Channels should be open by default. If a moderator wants to make people have to join, then the current system seems okay. But that should be an option, not a requirement. Imagine being a new user here and coming and you can't even post anywhere. Why would you stay?

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What's frustrating? The fact that we need permission from a small handful of mods to access a supposed permissionless social network. I don't care about being "in the club", I just want to read and talk about things I find interesting. "Ohh but channels are like twitter spaces now!" Ok WHY? Twitter spaces suck ( a few people talking while everybody is just in the audience). Why is this the direction? What wasn't working with channels that they needed to be like Twitter spaces? Was it merely the spam / low effort content? https://warpcast.com/superphiz.eth/0xeeea1f28

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Can there be 1 more layer of visibility on the replies? Replies from non-members that aren't spam shouldn't go straight to the hidden portion.

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I guess I’m just disappointed that there isn’t a viable crypto native solution for this. Gating channels and manual approvals feels very web2. I feel if we’re going to gate people and increase friction we should be doing it in a way that pushes decentralised ID or Sybil resistance forward. Especially if the short term goal is not to onboard the mainstream, then you have a very crypto native crowd that should be capable of handling such a solution. Something like GitHub, BrightID or EAS attestations that this person is human and/or a quality caster.

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I don't really understand the point of channels now, why should I want to cast to one or visit one?

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1. Channels I read but didn't comment on now feel like exclusive readonly clubs. Tho even before if I dropped a question post, good chance it never gets eyeballs. 2. Idk bc I cant click and expand the elipsis rn 😭 on mobile

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