Work in progress: how to think about the Farcaster channels opportunity - <100 people groups and >1 million person audiences are well-served today by at-scale world-class mobile apps - 100 to 1 million person groups are stuck with desktop-oriented apps like Discord and subreddits (cf. Apollo popularity)
If we can figure out how to scale channels (there's still a lot of work to do), every channel becomes it's own social network with multiple clients -- some general purpose Farcaster clients (like Warpcast) that optimize for breadth but potentially more-tailored clients (a Sportscaster client).
Expanding on the desktop-oriented UX - Discord: no feed, discovery, each Discord server feels very separate, not well-suited for casual interest - Reddit: a lot of friction for content creation in subreddits, creates a lot of lurkers, few people using real identities (networks with mix of real and anon are best)
And yes there are plenty of subcommunities on like Twitter and Instagram, but hashtags and algos are looser affiliations. Also seems like Elon is working on communities but I'm skeptical given everything app approach. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1681113542848544773
I personally would love my own private Warpcast instead of discord or Telegram. You mentioned this in the podcast and I can’t stop thinking about it. Like, it’s perfect.
We spent the whole night talking about it in Paris 👉👈 go to sleep rn . feed back wen am wake up 👽
Random reaction: would be cool if FC had low-level primitives for client devs to create something like "ephemeral channels". Built on open-source SDK components that allow developers to experiement with algorithmically-generated, timebound channels. Channel metadata is stored onchain.
Random idea but if the Apollo app (or Reddit API in general) could be implemented to use Farcaster channels data somehow, that would be fantastic.
