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FC Protocol Stats (March vs April): 

March Total Casts: 8,720,781 
April Total Casts: 35,916,189
Growth: 311.76%

March Active Users: 103,933
April Active Users: 142,257
Growth: 36.91%

Data via farcasterinsights.com

FC Top 30 Active Users (March vs April) 

I don't enjoy saying this, but there's a significant amount of spam and bots inflating the protocol stats. Don't take my word for it, examine the data. Perhaps we should start saying active "accounts" rather than "users."

As long as we create mechanisms that help users find the content they want to find, the bots doesn’t matter

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guess we would need to be able to use same filters for the dashes as is used for discovery

so far not seen spam on tl here versus lens so its working on discovery

You don't see the spam because Warpcast filters it out in some of your feeds. What you see on here is very different vs what is happening at the protocol level.

what protocol rules changes are you suggesting? lower storage or rate limits? judgements about the types of casts that are valid or not? higher storage fees?

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narrower def of spam

storage puts a baseline cost on a capped amount of protocol usage similar to how gas functions on blockchains

w/o it hubs and indexers would be overloaded and there’d be magnitudes more of bot generated content

doesn’t make a judgement on quality, that’s up to app layer

1) I'm not suggesting any changes to the protocol. Early on, your team suggested that storage fees were the solution to the spam problem. I thought yall were serious about that, but maybe I misunderstood.

2) Since most FC usage happens on WC, it’s your responsibility to protect the protocol from memecoins that bring more spam than anything else. The incentives determine who will join and how those users will engage once they are here.