I wrote a reflection about my first month on Farcaster.

Honest feedback is welcome. Don't worry about my feelings. I'm more interested in your POV, especially if you have a strong reaction. :)

I wrote a reflection about my first month on Farcaster.

Honest feedback is welcome. Don't worry about my feelings. I'm more interested in your POV, especially if you have a strong reaction. :)

https://paragraph.com/@patriciaxlee/most-people-dont-know-how-to-be-interesting

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Grateful that you've shared this perspective because it's not one I hear enough of on here. 

There have been some comments along the lines of "I can't wait until people use Farcaster to talk about something other than Farcaster" and while that isn't what you're saying, it is in that direction. 

This: "Most people don’t know how to be interesting, even though everyone has something interesting to share. I think it often comes from self-doubt or fear of rejection. So people hide behind safe, generic content, then wonder why no one is interested."

Part of me wants channels to provide a bit more structure where people can feel comfortable sharing in their particular, likely chosen, cozy corner. Not to diminish the point that the infrastructure doesn't dictate whether anything shared is interesting, just glad to see infra mentioned in your piece. 

Overall, glad you're here and glad you've shared your first month of musings! Looking forward to more

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 /ai-art

automod

Hypersub

defi-research

AI art

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Bookmarking it so I can explore all the tools you linked, even if they’re not around anymore.

Even if not a bot, I feel like that would be a fun account for someone to run here as a way to contribute to the community. Just being aware of all the channels, spotlighting active ones, and helping with re-casting/cross-pollinating content. Maybe someone’s doing this already.

First reaction on channels is that you should just start one and give it a go. There were great tools like /automod from @jtgi and then some of the /hypersub integrations, but all of those have iterated away. 

Initially, I thought /every/channel/would/be/a/repo and I still think there's meat on the bone there. In the current form, I think we're a bit half-way using them as ontological or taxonomical categorization vs communities (and that's a big hand-wave, as there are definitely channels that are communities). 

There is a lot of bot spam right now that is just noise, and it makes me wonder if there is bot capacity/capability to auto-tag and or auto-recast casts into appropriate channels, so that the mindshare can develop in each specific corner. For example, there are a ton of posts about /ai that could cross-pollinate into channels like /defi-research or /ai-art. We don't really have the critical mass to make that worthwhile right now, but bots-as-navigators or docents seems like an under-served area

Thank you so much for reading 🤍 It’s interesting to me you mention that specific comment. I nearly included a screenshot of someone saying they can’t wait for people to talk about something other than Farcaster. It’s basically the mega app containing all the mini apps, is in constant flux (in a great way), and thus is the easiest topic for all of us to discuss together.

There’s definitely low hanging fruit that would make channels better for newbies like me, like clearly stating casting/membership requirements and doing something about ghosted channels. Reddit has the same problem with abandoned subreddits.

I’d feel more equipped to provide more feedback on channels only after moderating a channel myself. The latest Farcaster State of the Union chat really opened my eyes to the challenges around spam and moderation that people have been dealing with around here.

I’m very interested in your advice on channels, especially because I plan to create one for my own project.

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Is it solved?

I won't be educating you, have a good one 🫡

Isn’t spam a solved problem? Please educate us on why it’s so difficult for this site.