Farcaster

Hey all - just wanted to share some of my concerns about the public nature of our casts/behavior on FC.

Hoping for an open dialogue on where we think this is headed, and in the long run, how to provide privacy protections from a user content perspective.

Hey all - just wanted to share some of my concerns about the public nature of our casts/behavior on FC.

Hoping for an open dialogue on where we think this is headed, and in the long run, how to provide privacy protections from a user content perspective.

https://paragraph.xyz/@barrycollier/farcaster-content-graph

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this is at odds with the permissionless north star

backend eng; full-stack curious

writer, icon, retired rave queen

Yeah, I understand

do you think the concern about how it will be abused is valid, or do you believe that all of your personal content being publicly available will never be abused?

because I’ve pointed to some historical examples of how lack of privacy ends badly

I think there are models to satisfy both goals

“all of your personal content” doesn’t sound accurate; people share what they want but likely it’s a small percentage of the totality of their content/data

Se siente mejor y no. Puedo amar más y más que antes. Lo que ella ha dicho siempre importa. 

Cambia de cuerpo, altera la mente, pero me arrodillo igual. ¡De ro

The article spells out how little data it takes

I just analyzed a few hundred of my casts to create a decent personality profile

Do this at scale across millions of FIDs (as FC scales) and I have a clear path to segmentation and targeting

Not concerned about my individual privacy, but about the impact at scale