Farcaster

I often wonder about the actual context of discussions around "the algorithm". Do I want an algorithm that is better at...

A. showing me the best content?
B. getting me the widest distribution?

It's such a difficult discussion to have in public, because 

1. No one in the 1% that creates content is ready to accept these two directions may be conflicting, ie. that my content is not that great.

2. The typical 90% that is mostly reading/liking is obviously in favor of A, but they are (by definition) not vocal.

3. Even between the 1-10% of users who post content, some are interested in writing (they want to share, and usually they only care about a few, specific, users reading them, their circle) and those who are interested in getting read (they will create based on what gets them attention).

Good luck to anyone trying to reconcile all these in a public discourse.

The Trending tab in Farcaster is still a mystery to me...

I make a daily digest of the best casts in Far and in practice I understand that 90% of the casts of simply top influencers with more than 50k followers get into Trending, 
but Far by default considers them to be quality casts and trending, although again, most of them are simply too smart statements that are incomprehensible to most users in Farcaster and are actually not interesting by and large, but they like them for their own reasons..

The new algorithm from Varun in the Incentivize program has already become much more interesting and stronger, there are serious changes here, I see that there are already really new users with new views getting there, but permanent getting into the top 100 of some also raises questions for me..