I've been thinking about how we keep contributing, whether it's casting consistently, helping fight spam or just being active, but the way rewards are distributed feels really skewed. The current system mainly benefits a small circle of OGs who reward within their own (tight?) networks. Meanwhile, people outside those circles, even if they’re putting out good content or doing valuable work, barely see any recognition or points.

I get that rewarding early adopters makes sense to a point, but if the goal is to grow Farcaster into a more open, diverse network, this setup might actually hold that back. It keeps value locked in a feedback loop instead of spreading it to new or underrepresented voices who could help the ecosystem thrive long term.

I think the first thing that has to go is this shortlist of influential people that are dominating the Farcaster feed since I joined in January 2024. Let's call them the OGs.

The OGs that were on the autofollow list and gained 1000s of followers in early 2024 by design are now deciding who ranks high on the rewards leaderboard.

You can easily spot OGs in the trending feed, they are there every single day. Their casts are trending even without any engagement.

These OGs also decide when your casts are trending and pushed by the algo by engaging with your cast.

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I feel the same. However, I must say that some of the OGs have welcomed me well to FC. 

But just a few. Me, being an OG on Lens have helped lots of people, projects and apps getting the visibility they deserve there.

See it also here, but just a minority helps newcomers…

Oh, and also I find it not fair that “frens” of FC Team members are shilled all the time. 

They should be more impartial/neutral. Or shill everybody who’s new 😄

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Yeah, I'm struggling to grow here and ngl sometimes it's frustrating. 

Coming from Lens, with almost 25K followers it's hard to restart here, but I'm not gonna give up. I know my value and what I want. 

Anyway, I've seen some OGs from Lens starting here and they give up.

Not me, tho 💪🏽💪🏽

Thanks for your words, mate!

nice! glad you have great experience this far

I guess they are all welcoming in a way but the farcaster app makes it really hard to remain in their feeds and as soon as you're out of there which will happen when they are not following you, you just drop out of everything

but it's farcaster that gives them this power without them maybe wanting that (or knowing), it's fine and logical everybody onboards their friends it's the farcaster algo that boosts some friends friends and that's what makes things weird here