many such cases ep 12: building for high-quality content with @dwr

many such cases ep 12: building for high-quality content with @dwr

July 18, 2024

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SUMMARY

The ability to fork a decentralized community and the development of new apps and tools are essential for providing security, control, and improved user experience for content creators and their audience.

• 00:00🔑 Twitter is working on enabling high-quality content and user engagement by creating vibrant channels and getting more people excited about being channel owners and moderators on the network.

  • The speaker discusses the importance of high-quality content on the network and the challenge of defining what constitutes quality content.

  • The focus is on enabling people to post thoughtfully on farcaster by adding tools and driving growth of channels to increase the breadth of content on the network.

  • Twitter is trying to scale and improve user engagement by creating vibrant channels and getting more people excited about being channel owners and moderators.

• 03:03📈 Building a high-quality content channel with integrated crypto rails and decentralized community for long-term investment and protection, while also discussing the challenges of growing a community and plans to make the user experience easier and more accessible.

  • The speaker discusses the barriers to entry for starting a channel and the challenges of growing a community, but also mentions plans to make the user experience easier and more accessible.

  • Successful social media accounts and communities grow by sticking around and benefiting from network growth, and talented content creators can grow quickly on existing networks.

  • Building a high-quality content channel with integrated crypto rails and decentralized community for long-term investment and protection.

  • The challenge is to migrate an existing Discord community to a new platform like Forecaster, but building a community on a platform like Farther allows for future-proofing and easy migration to new software.

  • Creating competition within the community to serve the right needs, focusing on voting mechanics, and increasing the supply of high-quality content are important for user growth and attracting more developers to the protocol.

  • Instagram and the new app Rodeo have made it easier for people to create and benefit from content without having to put in much effort.

• 08:41 🎙️ Focus on enabling users to easily create high-quality content, increase casting through AI and skill improvement, utilize reply bumping and apps like Moshi cam, address abuse and complaints with machine learning, and improve the ml feed despite complaints.

  • Focus on lowering the barrier to creating high-quality content by enabling users to easily create both narrow and long casts.

  • Increase the amount of casting by getting good casters to cast more, and then consider using AI or improving the skills of marginal casters to further increase the number of casts per user.

  • Reply bumping and the introduction of apps like Moshi cam have helped in creating high-quality content that can be shared within a frame without the need for additional work from the team.

  • The speaker discusses the challenges of reply bumping on a small network and the need for a machine learning model to address abuse and complaints.

  • Old school machine learning is being used to sort potential interesting content for users, with a split test running for the last few months to improve the ml feed, despite complaints about the machine learning model.

• 12:38 🎙️ The warcast model aims to show relevant replies and highlight new accounts, while apps like Moshi frames and Dracula use the warcast feed to bootstrap their user base, and the potential for the warcast team to drive high-quality content and improve the user experience through integration with other apps is discussed.

  • The warcast model aims to show relevant replies and highlight new accounts, while apps like Moshi frames and Dracula use the warcast feed to bootstrap their user base.

  • New social experiences using forecaster stack for distribution can bring in users and provide unique features like non-default profile photos.

  • The speaker discusses the potential for the warcast team to drive high-quality content and improve the user experience through integration with other apps.

  • The primary concern of the warp cast is text-based content, as text is still the highest status form of online communication and scales better than other mediums.

  • Creating high-quality audio content is challenging because people are used to being mean and creating entertainment through text, but with thoughtful editing and AI, this may change.

• 16:56📝 Creating high-quality content requires skill and practice, with a focus on thoughtful compression and word usage, especially on text-based platforms like Twitter.

  • Creating high-quality content requires a lot of effort and skill, but the more you practice, the better you become at it.

  • Creating high-quality content, especially in the form of text-based posts, requires thoughtful and interesting compression, which is often overlooked in favor of video and image content.

  • Word cells, who are good with words, benefit more on platforms like Twitter, where people are more into expressing themselves through words rather than appearance.

• 19:29📝 Creating high-quality, concise, and visually appealing content that resonates with the crypto community on Twitter is crucial, and making it easier for users to post and improve their content on farcaster is important.

  • The speaker emphasizes the importance of creating high-quality content that resonates with the crypto community on Twitter.

  • High-quality content requires compression and the ability to convey maximum information in as few words as possible, especially when it's funny and visual like memes.

  • Make it easier for people already on farcaster to post and improve their content.

• 22:13🤖 AI struggles to create truly human content, so understanding inside jokes and references is key for audience engagement, and the increasing use of AI will raise the bar for high-quality content.

  • AI may be good at catching spelling mistakes, but it struggles to produce content that feels truly human, leading to frustration for new users.

  • Understanding inside jokes and references in content can create a sense of belonging and engagement with the audience.

  • The increasing use of AI and bots in content creation will raise the bar for sophistication and ingroup references, leading to a higher standard for high-quality content.

  • Increase the number of high-quality posts to support user growth and enable channels to increase the total number of interesting posts.

  • Channels develop their own culture and in-group jokes, and the way forward is to create similar spaces for adjacent communities to build their own culture and community within the confines of a channel.

• 26:55 👍 Building high-quality content for specific online communities through niche memes and in-group interactions is essential for community growth and engagement.

INSIGHTS

Content Creation and Distribution

• 🌐 The ability to fork a decentralized community into different pieces of software provides long-term security and control for content creators and their audience.

• 📱 Foundation's new app, Rodeo, uses a novel passive referral system, allowing users to benefit without actively referring, changing the traditional approach to referrals.

• 📈 Lowering the barrier to creating quality content is a key focus for product development.

• 📈 Forecaster is the friend of social experiences in a world where the Twitter algo hates links, as it ensures equal distribution for content.

• 💭 The core of the network is text, and even video podcasts get thrown into the "food processor" of the textual medium because it scales better.

• 💡 Crafting high-quality content is a 30-minute process of trimming down to the essence of what you're trying to say, and it's hard work that most people don't know how to do or don't want to do.

• 🤔 Memes are great when they articulate something everyone is feeling but has not yet said, and do it in a visual and funny way.

Technology and Artificial Intelligence

• 🤖 Using AI to improve the casting process may be a potential solution for those who are not as good at casting.

• 🤖 The team is working on a machine learning model to address the issues with unfiltered reply bumping and avoid complaints.

• 📈 The warcast model is getting really good at showing relevant replies without showing irrelevant ones, and highlighting new accounts, improving the user experience.