Founder of the /success channel. Search Marketing Director at Kraken Kratom. 

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.

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Here's another way to look at the spam filtering problem. Consider this hypothetical?

1. Let's say you have a new account on the network (Account A) at they reply 100 times to the same account (Account B) with no engagement back.

2. It doesn't actually matter if Account A is run by a human or a bot with AI. 

3. If you have 1000 accounts like Account B, Account A will just stop using the app. They'll move to another network or a messaging app.

4. Ideally, Account B would reply thoughtfully a few times and Account A engages with them, and then it increases over time as they build a relationship.

5. If you say "well 100 times is too much, but 50 times is fine", then you're admitting humans can be spammy and we're now arguing over the definition.

6. Side note: I don't think anyone is ready for a world where bots powered by AI are as interesting—or even more interesting—than humans.

PSA: changes coming Warpcast spam controls.

take note, this is /specific/ to Warpcast client. The protocol is, as always, permissionless. These changes do not necessarily affect other clients.

in summary, if you:
>too-often reply to users who don't follow you
>and those users don't interact with your replies
>you'll eventually get a /single/ warning from warpcast (notifs).
>if you relax, great. carry on and enjoy your visibility.
>if you persist, you'll be labeled as spam and your replies hidden.

so you're spam. whoops. now what?
>at first and for awhile, nothing.
>flagged users will be reevaluated eventually (weeks later).
>this review system needs to be built (doesn't exist yet).
>as planned, users who demonstrate good behavior may be restored.

but as varun notes, this remediation system doesn't exit yet. for the time being, treat Warpcast's spam flagging as permanent. Be careful, frens 🌹

a few things, since y'all are getting ornery: 
✔️ it's early. assume change before assuming elsewise.
✔️ don't over optimize, it makes ya brittle.
✔️ socialfi reputation will be important, don't squander your chance.
✔️ but the path to onchain reputational credit markets will be messy.
✔️ and there will be many false starts. but we'll get there...
✔️ and when we do, everything changes. so be fuckin' patient.

and don't die 🌹

Tomorrow is the worldwide theater premiere of the @ethereumfilm documentary "Vitalik: An Ethereum Story" screening in 23 countries! Tickets at ethereumfilm.xyz

Thank you all for the support, we're excited to get more high production crypto stories out there!

A feature documentary - Vitalik: An Ethereum Story
and collection of short films about Ethereum.
EthereumFilm.xyz 
Updates at /ethereumfilm

♦️ Etruscan (or perhaps Greek) bronze Phrygian-type helmet and armor from Arezzo, Tuscany, dating from the 4th century BC. 

The beauty of this armor is surreal, the warrior wearing it must have an almost divine aura

Exhibited at the Museum of the Etruscan Academy in Cortona.

the rumors are true, i moved to new york for the *best* season to be here (fall)

the sun is bright, the air is crisp, fort greene looks like an OG windows screensaver, and the friends are everywhere <3 @adrienne

Cohost /gmfarcaster livestream Farcaster news show 🎙️💬 Founder Tenger Ways, bringing joy into work with DevOps practices 🤗 mom x 3 💗

I'm out here trying to build a respectable Twitter clone. yo wtf is this? with fucking jeans too? 


yo V, put these three on timeout 
@ted @nonlinear.eth @phil

I have a passion for vintage fashion and enjoy searching thrift stores for one-of-a-kind items. Cooking

Question for the crypto degens: the hardcore anon types who run protocols and leave cameras off in meetings and (I assume) have significant bags, how do they offramp and just do personal finances? 

I assume they KYC one small wallet, and offramp to local fiat? Something else?

A Base Membership that gets you discounted or free gas anywhere you go, better fees/yields/bonuses from participating dapps, early access to new features, etc.

Interested?

I asked you 4 months ago if you wanted an onchain membership w/ free gas on Base

Today, I shared that we're launching Coinbase One onchain - starting with free gas on Base, and expanding from there

Excited to work w/ Base builders on offering more benefits and bringing Coinbase One members to your apps

Ten most interesting houses in the world

1. This house is literally built on rock! It sits, looking precariously, on a piece of solid rock in the river Drina in Serbia. But do not be fooled by the looks. The house was built in 1968, and it has withstood severe storms and floods all these years!

Não moraria. Mas definitivamente passaria um tempo nela. Refletir sobre a vida

What is the best resource going deep into what parts of history were “predetermined” (IOW, had an obvious “adjacent possible” for the taking) vs. what parts were relatively unlikely or a product of luck ?

No Love

@cbw