Spotlight

How does a project build influence in the Farcaster network?

The most common answer is to build a new client.

[read on for @procoin new launch preview]

The thinking is that if you own the direct relationship with the user, you control how they interface with the network and thus derive influence in how the network operates.

This makes sense on some level, but the challenges and obstacles are readily apparent. 

Changing consumption behavior for what is roughly the same content is nearly impossible. Users are lazy creatures of habit. And there aren't that many users anyway.

So, the next idea people have is to change the medium. Less text, more video. Focus on music. Build an experience centered around mini apps. 

This is a better answer but still not quite right. On a text-centric network, you're going to run out of alt content real quick. Most small teams do not have the will or resources to solve this supply-side problem.

For the new @procoin curation protocol, we're trying something new. Instead of changing the interface or the medium, we're changing the shape of the content. 

"The feed" is this generalized black box which serves us well in some ways, but also narrows and flattens the experience.

We want to take Farcaster into its Tumblr era, where there are a thousand custom feeds -- unique experiences hand-curated by anyone with a creative instinct. Accessible and consumable in a miniapp. 

But of course, no one in crypto gives a fuck unless there is a speculative component.

To bootstrap a legion of curators, they need to be capitalized by an army of speculators. 

That's why every feed is tradable on a bonding curve from day 1. And that's why we're building a set of revenue models for curators to leverage to make their feeds lucrative for themselves and their investors. 

We're also introducing some novel issuance mechanics. The goal is to make content creators stakeholders in these new feeds. An attention and distribution flywheel if you will.

Contracts are headed to audit. Miniapp is getting closer. More soon

Just set up the groupchat for some early curators who will be participating

If YOU are interested in participating in this financialized curation experiment, reach out

I am for sure interested in any movement linked to @procoin, I do not have as much time spent on this app as some other users here.  I have spent more time on Zora, so my ability to develop a FC 'feed' may be limited, but I am learning more everyday here.

This concept of curation is important to me, as we are now able to  assign value to all interactions here and a big question remains, "What to interact with and how?"  Respecting people's time with mini apps and getting them in front of quality user content is important.
 I have a theory as well that might be valuable to this idea of curation, that the real gold is not only found in the surface layer casts, but the replies - the curation of interaction, not just at the surface of the content on the top level cast, but a layer deeper.  Some of the most interesting things are hidden there.  Where few look, because we only see the surface of the water, we are missing entire ecosystems beneath the surface.   

We may need to add a 'Sinker' to our line when we cast.
Something that goes a little deeper…

@marmo.eth - this sounds up your alley as well.
(Not my image - google search of 'Fishing Sinker')

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what subjects of themes would you want to curate around

I think what's stood out the most to me here is this battle between AI and human interactions.  The drive towards video is linked to the desire to validate that you are interacting with another human, yet there are many things of immense value produced with AI tools... there is a fear of these tools destroying art and the creative process, yet I see many very real human accounts using all sorts of these tools to enhance their content.  

This will be a huge topic moving forward.  

I guess the question swings back to you a bit as well, I am on a personal curation journey, picking and choosing the things I interact with here because those interactions cost me currency now.  

This 'feed curation' is not the same in the sense that someone developing a feed for me to direct my attention is very different from starting at 0, at ground level, and seeing who you run in to like I have so far.

If I direct someone's attention, I run the risk of turning people here into ghosts that can not be seen because they are not making the feeds.  Another layer of complexity, but it could also uncover those having trouble being seen, so I understand the endevour.

I am very interested in any discussion around what curation here even means.  It is not so simple, this task of assigning value to souls.