Farcaster

Twitter is visibly losing the war with spammers and scammers.
Replies are a disaster. Real post with 3k likes immediately gets ratiod by scam impersonators with 20k. Gold-check "verified organization" for the scammer.

Great opportunity for a certain purple protocol!

Real World Ethereum 🌎 
building /daimo ✳️ 

This is fate of every social tbh. I have no trust that FC will be any different once it hits the same level of DAUs, especially with the financial incentives available.

FC has structural advantages.

- Open protocol > more people can ship
- Much less technical debt > can ship faster
- "Pay 100 warps to post in this channel", nonrefundable when kicked for spam
- Crypto-native initial audience > can experiment with other forms of onchain reputation, slashing, etc

trendies cofounder

ex-dydx senior swe

https://warpcast.com/trendies

It's not pay to post. It's pay to join!

Posting remains free. It's just that your deposit is nonrefundable if u get kicked/shadowbanned/blocked/... for spamming.

Antispam is fundamentally hard if new identities are $0 each

pay to post is awful ux for social media

for farcaster to keep growing, feed should not be full of spam from financial games (degen / perl / ham / nfts). arguing that “pay to post fixes this” is nuts