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.

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

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.

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

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

That doesn't solve the content signal problem.

Force a decision on a user when they decide to join a channel - there's creative (and even fun) ways to do this in the UI 

The average social media user is obviously not coming to farcaster 

Solve for humanity/connection rather than the average social media experience that we've had which has exhausted many and made people jaded

Solve for average user. They don’t change settings.

Why don't users decide for themselves?  Let them follow a channel or turn off narrowcasting to let that channel pop into their feed.  Essentially, let the users solve the content signal problem individually by opting into specific channels they're interested in.  Maybe have a pop up or secondary question when joining to ask if they want that channel included in their main feed

Are there any other ideas or experiments on how to solve the content signal problem?

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.

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

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.

Baseline 
+ follow
+ follow channel 

Adds priority to people you follow posting in channels you follow 

People of interest to you posting about topics of interest to you sounds like a great feed