I've been thinking if Following is the right content consumption model for Farcaster. Maybe there are better models for discovering & curating Farcaster content? Today we turned the Purple Home Page into a Live Feed of every cast on Farcaster getpurple.xyz info: http://bit.ly/3HqVxRz
One aspect of Farcaster that I 💜 is that developers are free to permissionlessly experiment.
nice. love to see live real-time feed of most recent casts! helps me know who is online and active! 😄
Also, YouTube videos play directly within the Purple feeds on web and mobile
caveat (1): We know this wont scale forever, but in spirit of “do things early that’s don’t scale early on,” right now it works quite well. At peak volume thus far this year there were 50 casts per hour, which is more than consumable. The Live Feed updates whenever a new cast comes in, or serves a message if s
caveat (2) The experience is not perfect (yet), as we are unable to sync deleted casts from the current Merkle API (will be possible when Hubs launch).
caveat (3) We also made the call at Purple to not ask users to “login” yet to cast, like, reply, & recast on Purple until FC team provides a smooth oAuth experience (scheduled for March). (The current method requires users to copy their Farcaster private key into a wallet)
Will you be introducing the ability to read cast replies? Also, I’m not having a good experience with search. For example, if I type “Artifact” I get a bunch of irrelevant results on Purple so I’ve been relying on Searchcaster instead. Im really digging how new casts automatically load on the new live feed
I assume that none of the features that you talk about are available to people who access farcaster thru the web. Is this correct? If this is the case, then maybe you should mention that so people are not confused.
niche information network vs. a social network 💡 For all the hate on hashtags I think that’s what I liked about early Twitter Finding and organizing around topics, not people Love to see you continue to experiment and share! 👏
Really love the live feed and trending, found great new follows Feedback on search -- I'd prefer exact matches before any AI inferred relevant ones