Looking for input

Assume we want to simplify channels to make them:

1. Fully decentralized, zero Farcaster app dependencies
2. Allow other clients to extend them
3. No cost to create them

Which option is most appealing?

A) Hashtag approach — channels are open to everyone, channel pages look less like profiles and instead are a simple feed of casts. There’s no moderation — the feed is unique to each viewer based on their own social graph and maybe a user-controlled setting around filtering. 

B) Niche interest approach — Channels are open to everyone and narrowcast only, ie you get no distribution boost. But allows you to cast in a channel knowing only people interested in that topic will see it.

Assume in both cases membership and moderation in the main Farcaster app would go away. PYou’d be free to use a channel focused client for more community features. 

This is not an imminent change, more gathering input for what matters to people who still use channels.

A could be nice if they don't end up being such a huge toxic wasteland like they are right now

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This is another reason I feel like we're going to have a better experience than Twitter for a while 

The ability to cut spam during our early growth phases will be beneficial all around

The reason they don’t work on Twitter:

1. Cringe to have in the body of the tweet

2. They aren’t aggressive enough with spam filtering.