Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Virtually all of the people on Farcaster with large audiences: 1. Don't have large audiences elsewhere (Farcaster is their first time with a large audience) 2. Didn't know me or Varun and didn't know each other. The "Farcaster OG scene" is net new creation of Farcaster. 3. Were early and stuck around when everyone made fun of Farcaster (and people still do) 4. Continued to cast interesting stuff, casted in channels when we suggested people cast in channels 5. Warpcast onboarding asks all users for their interests 6. Based on the interests, we pair the account with an initial set of follows 7. There are 200+ accounts on the list, weighted toward accounts that get the most engagement / drive retention, but a large group of people benefit 8. On our list to improve, but the reality is outside of "I should be on the list!" haven't seen any concrete proposals to improve
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Elie
@elie
Important feedback. I'm one of those beneficiaries. And I'd be happy to keep getting followers. But I would listen carefully to this pain point. I imagine churn is one of the biggest challenges you face, and figuring out solutions would to it for these disgruntled users would go a long way. I actually don't think you want users telling you the solution. You want to hear the problem, and you and your team figure out the solution to it. Some potential solutions. Some of which you may be doing already: 1. Boost new user posts more than usual. I think TikTok does this. 2. Put more weight on quality of post rather than followers. I think Twitter took this too far recentlyy which harmed the quality of content I'm seeing there. But it's good to be able to get out of reach outside of your network if your content is good. A meritocracy rather than based on how many followers you have. 3. New follower channel? There used to be this bot that would post when someone new joined. Maybe still exists in some format.
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Elie
@elie
But give those new users a way to get to 10-50 followers pretty quickly. Assuming they're a legit account (and yes, you'll have questions there about what's legit, but you can figure that out too). Even some sort of welcome committee type thing. Gamifying this can also help. Probably better than gamifying channel streaks.
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