I spent a little time with casters at FC who complained about not getting enough distribution. 

I found three problems that affected most casters. If you want to increase your distribution, try fixing these first.

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3. Cast often 

Our home feed algo selects casts from everyone you follow. It then orders them so you see casts from people you interact with often first.

One of the accounts I looked at hadn't cast in three months. If you drop off for a while, then you'll naturally start showing up in a lower position on people's feeds until they start liking your posts again. 

We've added some features to make this better like the "X casted for the first time in a while notification". But dropping off for a while is going to hurt your distribution and you should cast at least a few times a week if you want to keep growing your audience here.

2. Cast interesting things

I looked at another account where the last 10 posts were automated shares of miniapps. There wasn't a single original word they had written. 

It's important that you share something unique that people might find interesting. If you're sharing a miniapp, add a little commentary about why you're using it. If you're sharing a link, tell people your thoughts about it.  

People follow you for your personality, make sure it comes through.

I think you are not getting much interaction because you're not doing the things I said in the post above. 

If you don't put in the effort to create things that are interesting to others, you won't get a lot of likes. It doesn't mean you're "outside the community". It just means that your posts or your profile aren't that interesting to people who don't know you. 

So you either need to post more content or spend more time making friends and being helpful to others. This is not a platform problem, this is the reality of how humans interact with each other.

Hey @v this is a timely post and thank you. As a new, casual user I've had the same type of thoughts myself... even wondering if I was being shadow-banned or something. 

Then I started wondering if me not getting much interaction was a purposeful feature of Farcaster to limit the dilution of coolness from Normies. At the same time, I'm also recognizing that Farcaster is still a fairly small community so having less engagement is to be expected.

The thing is, I'm not trying to be an influencer, I'm not trying to be a KOL, and I'm not trying to be a leading-edge content creator. I don't need a thousand followers or want to strategize about ways to grow my following.  

I just want to be a normal online dude who gets to interact with a community and not feel like I'm on the outside. I think the onus of how users end up feeling when they're interacting with a platform should be kind of on the platform creators - not fully on the users, unless that's an explicit feature.

Anyways, hope this is somewhat helpful.

1. Not enough followers

One of the people I talked to had 10 followers and was surprised they had no engagement. 

You absolutely need to build a following. A good rule of thumb is that if you have 1k followers, then 100 may be online today, 50 may scroll enough to see your cast and 5 of them may like it. 

If you don't have 1k followers, work on fixing that. Just posting casts won't get you more followers. You also need to reply or interact with others so they notice you and click follow. 

It's important that these interactions are helpful to others. If you are simply trying to farm follows, people will notice and it will have the opposite effect.

all good advice that literally hasn’t changed since July 2023 🫡

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all good advice that literally hasn’t changed since July 2023 🫡 

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yes these seem like the most obvious things ever is it just me

sheesh this seems so obvious

reminds me of IG days when new accounts would have 2 posts and dm me asking for tips 

tip #1 was always at least fill up your whole grid first

Why do we care so much about increasing distribution? From the people you talk to, is it in hopes of promoting ourselves/business efforts? Or like, cause it feels good to be like and engaged with?

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These are really good tips. Thank you for sharing!

That part about not just posting but casting with personality is underrated. The algo might surface you, but your POV is what makes people stay

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These are some very useful tips.

I haven't tried to consciously grow my followers in a really long time. Need to work on that

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Does open rank counts it too or what is have more useful than others?

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Thanks for sharing this. Originally learned about FC through Phaver and was just crossposting on that app thru Lens until it shut down. I went to an event during FarCon and learned more about it and plan to use it more.

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Thanks for these! 


But can I join Farcaster team if I invite Elon musk to farcaster?? 👀

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loosing the followers count did hurt, mine dropped from about 4K to 1.5K, I can't believe I had so many spam accounts following me!

Well honestly sir, I have the same issue especially while watching my followers dwindled down from 18k to 9k. I stop complaining about it and just cast with enthusiasm.

You're absolutely right
Real value comes from engagement

Seems obvious but the question is figuring out what people on this app like 

I put out pretty interesting blog posts imo  but my reach  is minimal 

Not that I’m complaining but it’s not as easy as how you are describing it