This actively harms Ethereum. Instead of accelerating progress, it slows us down. Time and energy that should go toward solving critical problems is wasted on performative debates and engagement-driven infighting. Instead of meaningful discussions, we get engagement wars. Instead of collaboration, we get tribalism.

Must be said and good read. By shifting the focus from engagement-driven debates to structured, consensus-oriented discussions, Farcaster could help the Ethereum community prioritize meaningful progress.

My question is, is this already happening on Farcaster? And in what way? What would be needed to make it happen if it’s not?

Warpcast’s algo likely has the same issues as Twitter’s but it's not a big deal because Farcaster hasn't reached scale yet. But Farcaster "the protocol" gives us the flexibility to build a new client or even just leverage its social graph to create a better way to understand community sentiment. Polis is a promising open-source tool worth exploring

I really like the idea of learning from Polis! Do you see a low hanging fruit feature that we could test in Kiwi? We already vote on links, so I feel like we‘d be able to vote on preferences too

"And it is not just social status. Outrage farming is financially rewarded. The easiest way to raise your profile is to grow your Twitter following by being an asshole. That leads to podcast appearances, better deal flow, and a payday at a new job. Kaito has taken it even further, explicitly rewarding engagement with yaps that will almost certainly become tokens. The entire system has evolved to reward the worst possible behavior. The downstream effects are everywhere."

100%. I agree with the description of the problem, but I think we'd need to iterate on the solution.

One of the reasons why people open Twitter is because they're bored. They want entertainment, some fresh information, see what their friends are talking about, and so on. And I agree that a Polis-like client might solve the 'feed optimized for drama' problem. But is it fun enough to use to compete with Twitter for attention? It reminds me of DAO voting which doesn't sound like fun :)

That being said, I think there's potential in here. For example Nikita Bier's Gas App was all about polls and it was very popular among teenagers who are a hard group to entertain. The way he solved it, is that he made it about people - you could vote "I think the coolest person in our class is Johnny". Maybe if we made it about claims, like, "I think Nixo's statement about staking such as 'XYZ' is the most accurate one"

Great read! I've attemted to examine these and other harmful techniques used by traditional social media and the ways to fix them in web3 in my article here: https://paragraph.xyz/@nikolaii.eth/2DEZoZcKE5pVcqXf4yDf

Feedback is welcomed!

Well... yess... I guess engagement measurement potrays wrong stuff. It's better to have this consensus way of highlighting everyone's views.

I would like a feature, that would take my main points and potray that than my emotions... (: because outrage on a topic, another point of you consider offensive and you wanting to jump and tell them that, I do it badly and get banned.

Interesting points. I like calmness, diversity to unite... and social media should be peaceful, and entertaining kind, not make you feel disturbed or raised your BP... or you know... it should be clean to.

Many times I get disturbing videos on my twitter feed, which sucks. I don't want that!