Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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.
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phil
@phil
Lean towards B. I like hashtags as an idea, but they feel like a skeuomorphic tech from before we had machine learning.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Worth clarifying: there would be no hashtag in the cast.
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phil
@phil
My point still remains. I thing AI can do a better job classifying than humans. Human generated tags will always be a subset of content and have the extra problem of incorrect labeling (check out /zora for egregious examples of off-topic content)
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@stevedv.eth
/zora and any financially incentivized channel (/base, /ethereum, /rainbow, etc) will always be noisy due to farmers, and the only viable solution is the platform nerfing them as spam. While AI can do a better job at categorization, it would be hard pressed to label something in a humorous or even human way. It's too literal. /bad-takes and /someone-build are examples of great channels because you can place new and existing casts in there and give them a larger meaning.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Yep
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Adam
@adam-
Spot on @stevedv.eth 🎯
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