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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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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How do you measure signal?

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A/B tests of engagement. Most recommended content from channels performs significantly worse than content from people you follow.

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Then maybe channels should be open, public and narrowcast by default but the narrowcast for a specific channel could be toggled off so it's included in your main feed That would at least give channels a chance to grow and improve for specific communities or niches while not cluttering the overall feed

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That doesn't solve the content signal problem.

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the signal problem could be addressed in the Home feed algo, while the Following feed is the "analog" version. I think you would find users that prefer each. Personally I will unfollow/unsubscribe/etc if i get too much noise.

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challenge is most people don't unfollow. they just churn. the bar is really high to serve interesting / relevant content all the time with no work required from the end user

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I really appreciate you listening, thanks.

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