Caden Bell

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The spam filtering dilemma Sharing how we think about it so people can better understand: 1. Most people will only use social networks if they are fun 2. Casting something and getting dozens of spammy replies is not fun 3. If you get enough spammy replies, you'll just stop using the app 4. So, aggressively filtering for spam is necessary to keep your existing users happy 5. However, this means some good new users will hit spam filters. Understatement: this is a bad user experience for those people. It would be great to not have this happen. 6. But given the choice of who to make unhappy — an existing user who has invested a ton of time and energy into the network or a new user that is most likely to churn (top tier social networks lose 50% of users!), then you have to optimize for your existing users. 7. So does that mean you don’t care about new users? No! It’s existential to have new users be able to join Farcaster and find people to connect with — without being labeled as spam. 1/2

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the paren't of all the others.

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Growth is the existential issue.

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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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After reporting a bot, there's only a MUTE option.... we need a BLOCK option... or the blocking to happen automatically. If I'm reporting a bot, there's no scenario on which I don't want to block them.

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The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

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Dollar General shares drop 26%, marking the steepest intraday decline in its history. The CEO says core customers are "financially constrained"

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To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.

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Before NFTs, my main gig was as a blacksmith jeweller. I made and sold over 3000 hand forged wedding bands mostly out of titanium, stainless steel, iron, sometimes gold. Physical or digital tokens are equally arbitrary; intangible value derives mostly from assigned meaning due to the story.

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Not all people who wander are lost.

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Flesh-colored yoga pants were far worse than even he feared.

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Since this day, we're at 50x the message count, 180x the peer count, ~40x the db size. Perf metrics are harder to compare since it was during an incident but currently p95 merge latency is ~30ms and p95 gossip delay is <1s (vs 2000ms and ~2.5hrs during the incident)

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The ice-cream trucks bring back bad memories for all of us.

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Same post on Farcaster and X - roughly 2x the engagement on Farcaster 🤔

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It's not possible to convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising it infinite bananas when they die.

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Hubble 1.14 is out. It includes a bunch of fixes around follows (consistency issues and large compaction events breaking event streams). If you are using shuttle, make sure you’re on the latest version before upgrading hubs, there’s a breaking api change for events.

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One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...

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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto" https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html

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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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