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Why do we consume our feeds algorithmically but our chats chronologically?

The current chat UX treats all messages as if they’re the same level of importance or relevance even though they’re not, especially in larger groups

This leads to notification fatigue which in turn causes members to mute and check out

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Bingo

Channels enable specificity
Feeds enable discoverability

This is why most group chats don't scale.

Feeds get better with more active people.

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Same way you classify casts: reactions and replies (they exist in group chats too, just a bit less structured, LLMs can help)

If I switch clients I'm not using Warpcast anymore. I specifically mentioned Warpcast and not Farcaster so I disagree it's contradictory.

I do like the team being opinionated, except in this instance of course 😉
(I would really like a chronological feed option in Warpcast even if they hide the toggle deep in the settings. It's the main issue I have with the product.)

Most people do indeed consume algorithm feeds (I'll never understand why) although I'm not sure they realize they have a choice with some products.

An algorithmic feed feels to me like choice is being taken away and I'm being sold something.

The end of your sentence is contradictory: you do have a choice (switching clients)

Warpcast is an opinionated product and the team will build it how they think is best (which I agree with them that algo feeds are better than chron), you can choose to use their up or not — totally up to you

The cool thing with Farcaster is if you don’t like their app you can just use another one or even build your own!

I don't want to consume my Warpcast feed algorithmically but we're not given a choice (except switching clients).

the thing is that you don’t want to miss an important cast to you

in case of chats you have to go through the whole chronological history of what happened since you last visited - increasing amount of mental energy you need to spend 

same with the feeds, I’m used to following my notification feed

I have thought about this for a while, especially in the ol' Discord days. 

The best I've reasoned is that folks actually interact with feed content (e.g., like, comment, etc.), whereas chats/messages are, by and large, just read and keep scrolling.

so the behavior change would be more ways to engage with chat messages to determine which ones are actually 'useful'

tldr; tuff to apply logic to something that's read and scrolled past imo

I thought this take in the tavern hit esp hard. Agreed wholeheartedly, has made DCs unusable imo.

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Well said. Was trying to explain why Telegram is a traumatic experience for me and think this is it. Cool problem to solve

Also didn’t you like the chronicle feed better? Feels like we’re missing out on a lot of stuff. Especially since the new algo doesn’t prioritize new following so everyone just follow and forget.