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Pichi
@pichi
Are Channels Still the Future of Farcaster? (🧵) I used to think so. Now? Not so sure. Back in April 2024, spam was everyone’s problem on Farcaster. Then the channel overhaul happened and shifted the spam burden to hosts. If your channel is full of spam, it’s on you: Gate better. Moderate harder. Ban faster. It’s exhausting and most channel hosts have ignored it or automated it, confusing new folks and aggravating old ones who can’t cast into channels freely. Fast forward to April 2025: spammers got smarter. The current model aggressively flags most users as low-value. 80% of casts are orphaned—no replies, no recasts, no likes. Worse, casting into channels doesn’t trigger spam labels, which flipped the whole dynamic and spammers gravitate to casting into some channels hoping for visibility.
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tomato
@tomatoxyz
The design isn't optimized for channels. The feed without channels can be very generic depending on who you're following. Spammers still spam (or at least post low quality stuff) outside of channels also.
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Pichi
@pichi
Spammers definitely Spam outside of channels, but I feel like the Spam algorithm is really good about finding them there and I rarely see them in my home feed anymore because they’re considered very low value accounts
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