Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
One thing I was wrong about over the last few years: sign up costs would dramatically reduce spam. Turns out spam is a top 3 problem (aside from retention and infrastructure scaling) to solve for when building a permissionless decentralized social networking protocol. Spammers are willing to pay for sign ups at prices that normal users aren't. Spam is also relative: what's spammy for one person is not for another. Corollary: when you talk to developers building on Farcaster, spam is a top of mind issue whereas users giving product feedback but not actively building in the ecosystem tend to think this isn't that big an issue / not that hard a problem to solve. Also a good proxy for the quality of first principles thinking when suggesting "why don't you just do this?" if you haven't considered how would spammers abuse this and what's the solution.
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Commstark 🎩🫂
@commstark
utilize users to remove spam" according to Travels In The Land of Kublai Khan (marco polo), Kublai Khan wanted to build sidewalks in his city he demanded that each person spend a day build sidewalks in front of their house and connect it with their neighbours in a weekend the entire city had sidewalks we can learn from this
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What incentive do people have to do the work? What happens when one user thinks someone is not spammy and another does too? Spam is an ongoing indefinite problem. Building sidewalks is finite.
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
@deanpierce.eth
Connect it with their neighbors 😁 I mark stuff I don't like as spam, and everyone else does too. My feed is filtered by my spam tags, and the spam tags of the people I follow. If I consistently find content I missed that says it was tagged as spam by someone I follow, I unfollow them. Incentives balance themselves.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
This doesn't scale. Most new users who show up don't want to do any work. They want to be entertained, otherwise they churn. Existing users will do it for a bit, but not enough frequency / scale to make ti work.
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