Would you prefer to explicitly follow people on Farcaster or have the machine serve you up relevant content based on what you like? (keep in mind that following/followers is not in the protocol, so Farcaster apps can't just sync your follows across apps)
I thought being able to sync your following across apps was the whole point of FC? š§
I would normally want to exclusively choose who I follow, but being new here I donāt even know who is on the app yet. So ultimately, Iām ok being served suggested follows for now but of course that creates an equality gap
I think highlights should serve up the machine and following should stay following
Definitely both. I donāt like the idea of getting rid of the following mechanism
Interesting. I didnāt realize that followers were not part of the protocol. I need do a deep diveā¦ definitely having āthe machine ā play a role in surfacing quality content that is relevant to me is valuable, if done well (which is the hard part, I suspect)
I actually like seeing quality posts from people I didnāt follow on topics that I explicitly expressed interested, especially when they have opposite arguments, as long as they not clickbait or engagement farming.
Thatās what the following and highlights tab does for me - gives me the best of both worlds
I actually prefer to make lists for different contexts
Depends on which app Iām using. Warpcast, Iād rather curate the list of folks whose content I want to subscribe to (and also DC, if needed and infrequently). Other apps - Iād want machine recommendation and smart search.
explicity follow, i also limit who i follow, probably just me
Both. Sometimes I look at the following tab sometimes the highlight tab
Thatās a tough one. Iām so intentional about who I follow. But Iād the machine learn my preferences the way tiktok does (or Artifact has after a month on the platform) then I would say machine. Chances are the folks I follow will be ranked there anyhow.
You might want the machine to personalise both actually. Even for follow, which one you show first based on whatās latest/hot/interest etc - session time might be smaller that total follow read time.
A social graph is great but only an algorithmic interest graph can truly scale. A decision about user experience. Iād prefer different UIs for each.
Both. The discovery process isn't 100% organic IMHO.
OK, I see I made an over confident incorrect statement elsewhere. ļæ¼Anyways, yeah I appreciate machine suggestions, but having the ability to explicitly by decide who I follow is a matter of self determination Iām not keen to give up.
Do you plan to make the chain algorithm transparent in some way so that I will understand how it chooses things and how I can tweak it? Thatād be very web3.
I prefer it being content forward for the serendipity of discovery (vs seeing the same ppl in new places)
I'd like a mix of both. I appreciate being served content on topics I'm interested in from folks I don't know as long as they are a reliable source.