farcasterunion

The Algo’s Just Not That Into You...

Some of us have been watching this for weeks, using public data (via Dune + new tools) to confirm what we’ve felt:

The feed is ghosting longtime contributors and artificially launching newcomers into orbit.

Let's dig in!

"artificial algorithmic boosting" is alive and well

farcaster (client) is centralized

opinionated and can function as tastemakers/gatekeepers

no different than web2 social in this regard

"artificial algorithmic boosting" is alive and well

farcaster (client) is centralized

opinionated and can function as tastemakers/gatekeepers

no different than web2 social in this regard https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x94855f29

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Honestly its a great opportunity for someone to make a paid service to pull follower casts and filter for specific topics. Interested in what @vrypan.eth is cooking up here as a miniapp, but we could have a world of specialized "news groups" that post to farcaster.

Another funny thing is this is technically recreating RSS where your client polls for specific servers and posts, but I guess its RSS 2.0 with crypto rails.

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