Taylor Sizemore on Farcaster

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Looking for channel owners that spend at least 5 hours a week on growing and managing their channels. I had a group of people like this last fall, but a bunch of those people no longer seem to be actively working on their channel. Want to find the people that are *currently* committed to channels. Please reply here if that’s you.

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i no longer create new channels or moderate any of my channels, i even rarely look into them i only post to channels as opposed to my home feed because i think it still gives visibility boost? without the algo boost i'd only post to my home feed

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> i only post to channels as opposed to my home feed because i think it still gives visibility boost? > without the algo boost i'd only post to my home feed Will save you a step -- zero boost to visibility / distribution

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Taylor Sizemore

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You are saying channels give no visibility boost? Shouldn't following a channel funnel casts from followed channels into the home or following feed? That counts as more visibility in my book. Otherwise it should be called "favorite" not "follow"?

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Zero boost. Has been that way for a long time.

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Not even a boost to people who follow that specific channel? I always thought that posting in a channel would boost the cast to the users feed who follow that channel

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Nope. Too much low signal stuff.

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Taylor Sizemore

@taylorsizemore.eth

What is the official use case for channels as they stand? Seems many people are assuming they work like Reddit channels.

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I wish they did work more like reddit channels

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Taylor Sizemore

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Farcaster docs say they do: "Anyone can follow a channel just like a user. A user will see casts from a followed channel in their home feed when using the Farcaster client."

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So I guess this is still correct since users might see casts from a followed channel but they won’t necessarily be prioritized or boosted? Seems ambiguous

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Those docs are quite out of date at this point. Channels worked when the network was still invite-only. Open channels fill up with slop. When we take a heavy hand with the algo, people get mad about visibility. Reddit works because they have mods that are willing to do the work for free. Some exceptions, but not the case here.

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