Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What's on your mind re: Farcaster? Feels like there's been a subtle uptick in negativity recently directed at a variety of people / teams. I'd rather that be directed my way. Curious to hear what people are frustrated with in the replies. Will only ask clarifying questions, i.e. no arguing or defending or telling you that you're wrong. And then I'll do a video response in a few days sharing our latest thinking based on any common themes.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Observation (not judgment or accusation) about my FC behavior: My reach, engagement, and quality of interaction here feels down bad from the earlier days of FC. My feed itself has shifted to a hodgepodge of stuff that for whatever reason rarely makes me stop my scroll. A lot of my early friends from FC feel much less active or fully inactive these days. As a result of these 3 things, I don't really even enjoy opening the app anymore. That said, I still check it every day. You know how much of a casting addict I used to be, but now I feel like I mostly cast as a hedge on if/when Farcaster starts growing again. I've tried to figure out whether it's a reduction in meaningful conversation, a shift from a relationship platform to a broadcast platform, or if the topics people want to converse about just aren't up my alley, but honestly I'm not sure. I don't want this to be my attitude, but transparently this is pretty much where I'm at rn.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> feel much less active If you check their profiles, are they casting and you aren’t seeing it? Or is it they are actually less active?
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Pichi
@pichi
I’ve had 20 or so people tell me they no longer see me in their feed. We follow each other.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Do they interact with your content?
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Pichi
@pichi
Not anymore, because they don’t see it. Question: if something pops up on the feed but I scroll by and don’t like or comment, does the algorithm assume I think it’s boring and therefore doesn’t show it to me again? Am I supposed to be interacting with everything I see on my feed in some way to show the algorithm I want to keep seeing it? There are some folks who show up all the time on my feed and I purposefully don’t interact to try to get it to show up less but that didn’t seem to work.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
> Question: if something pops up on the feed but I scroll by and don’t like or comment, does the algorithm assume I think it’s boring and therefore doesn’t show it to me again? Yes. It's not so dramatic as to skip once and don't show. But that's essentially what every major / modern social network does with their feeds.
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Pichi
@pichi
Thank you! That’s helpful. Interaction is important. I’ll pass this along to new folks.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
I just super follow dozens of people.
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Pichi
@pichi
I’ve turned on notifications for a lot of people as my hack to make sure I don’t miss what they are posting. This does make me miss narrowcasting a bit ;) I know it wasn’t popular, but it was super cool to be able to keep my niche stuff niche and play Farcastles.
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