Dan Romero on Farcaster

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Looking for channel owners that spend at least 5 hours a week on growing and managing their channels. I had a group of people like this last fall, but a bunch of those people no longer seem to be actively working on their channel. Want to find the people that are *currently* committed to channels. Please reply here if that’s you.

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i no longer create new channels or moderate any of my channels, i even rarely look into them i only post to channels as opposed to my home feed because i think it still gives visibility boost? without the algo boost i'd only post to my home feed

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> i only post to channels as opposed to my home feed because i think it still gives visibility boost? > without the algo boost i'd only post to my home feed Will save you a step -- zero boost to visibility / distribution

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You are saying channels give no visibility boost? Shouldn't following a channel funnel casts from followed channels into the home or following feed? That counts as more visibility in my book. Otherwise it should be called "favorite" not "follow"?

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Zero boost. Has been that way for a long time.

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Not even a boost to people who follow that specific channel? I always thought that posting in a channel would boost the cast to the users feed who follow that channel

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Nope. Too much low signal stuff.

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How do you measure signal?

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A/B tests of engagement. Most recommended content from channels performs significantly worse than content from people you follow.

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Then maybe channels should be open, public and narrowcast by default but the narrowcast for a specific channel could be toggled off so it's included in your main feed That would at least give channels a chance to grow and improve for specific communities or niches while not cluttering the overall feed

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That doesn't solve the content signal problem.

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the signal problem could be addressed in the Home feed algo, while the Following feed is the "analog" version. I think you would find users that prefer each. Personally I will unfollow/unsubscribe/etc if i get too much noise.

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challenge is most people don't unfollow. they just churn. the bar is really high to serve interesting / relevant content all the time with no work required from the end user

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I really appreciate you listening, thanks.

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@taylorsizemore.eth

I get that, you gotta have an algorithmic feed on Home to fill that need. The following feed is, or should be, entirely chronological, include channels, with no algorithmic sorting. The following feed is the Natural Wine of social media. Unfiltered and raw. Downside is that people that use the Following feed might end up unfollowing a lot of noisy channels. It's possible those channels are noisy because the Farcaster docs say that when you cast in a channel, people that follow that channel will see it in their feed, encouraging noise.

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