Channel Research

Farcaster Update with Horsefacts at Variant LP Day 2024

Farcaster Channel Experiments:

1. v1: Moderation
2. v2: Curation
3. v3: Membership

What is next:

• Onboarding directly to channels
• Decentralization

Channels now have members and moderators. Members should vote on who the moderators are. This is the best way to address the Reddit mod power struggles.

This feature would be a cool unlock for Reddit communities dying in moderation battles. You could totally revive a community with new moderators.

Farcastle will actually be like a subreddit with a bank account

Large, topic based channels

"should be more accesible"

• /photography
• /food
• /founders

This is my Frames Experiment #35: Daily Growing Channels.

put the most important information about your project in your channel, regularly

Changes

Improving replies for channel casts

Channel Follow, Member & Moderation APIs

Channel member migration plan

Upcoming channel changes

Decentralization

[Public v2] Decentralized Channels

Channel Changes

• The simplest version of making your channel membership more open will be through a frame.
• If you're a developer interested in getting early access to the membership APIs — add, remove, list members—please reply here!
• Now, as a channel owner / moderator, you'll have 100% control of who and what appears in your channel's feed.
• Upcoming channel changes

News

• A thread of snippets from automod codebase that may be of interest to ppl building on farcaster.
• I’ve decided to sunset automod.

• Update on channel decentralization
• Decentralizing channels work in progress

Warpcast Native Features

Edit Rules

Rules native to Warpcast are visible when you click the View Channel Norms button:

Rituals

Configure Moderation

Moderation

• automod
• CastSense

Questions

What address do the token rules check against? Is the address associate with the account or any of the connected wallets?