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.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Being relatively new I didn't see much spam behavior outside of larger groups and responses on raffle type things which is kind of to be expected. It wasn't until the rash of recent updates that I started receiving very obvious spam/AI generated out of context comments on my casts. I suspect that it's not causing a flag on them because they are making the responses long and on the surface "quality" because of word count.