Some thoughts on spam on Farcaster and how we tackle it. 

First question - What is spam?  

The naive answer is "automated activity" but this isn't right. Over 75% of spam we find comes from real humans who have phones, wallets and x accounts. 

The best definition is "inauthentic activity". It's that feeling you get when you realize that someone who is following, liking or replying to is doing it to benefit themselves and not because they're interested in you.

AMA - anything you want to know about spam after reading this thread

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If we interact with people who are labeled, does that help the algorithm see them to be reevaluated?

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Yes but it works in reverse too. 

If your account primarily interacts with spammer, it’s likely that you are a spammer

So we should avoid interacting with posts in the “show more replies” bucket because our own account might be labeled as spammy?

It is brutal tbh. So people should all join channels in this way and never interact with anyone outside of channel ?

exactly. i hope they can find your posts fast enough to not considered as spam fast

I think for new people channels is the way to go until they make more friends.