Product

Building in consumer:

Sets the default experience to not have bots
Turns off the experience to not have bots
What are you going to do about the bots?

This is called conflict of interest. When every bot is paying you $5 a year, you are definitely not going to get rid of them.

Don't blame the "consumer". Filtering out every single new user by default is just dumb. It makes it almost impossible for new users without a social circle already on FC to start out.

Genuine question - what do you think we should be doing instead?

Farcaster

Farcaster DAU since we started counting in June 2021

Be honest about how many real users you have. You are currently selling the bots are users.

Sure, technically bots are also users... just not really what people come here for, so whilst technically correct, it's disingenuous.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Be honest about how many real users you have. You are currently selling the bots are users.

Sure, technically bots are also users... just not really what people come here for, so whilst technically correct, it's disingenuous.

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xf073853b

> how many real users you have

What methodology would you use to do this?

What other social networks do this well?

Define bot?

Programmatic access and posting?

Or non-English speaking person using a phone liking stuff that's posted in a Telegram group hoping for an airdrop from someone?

Is your definition of "user" = "people that are interesting to me"? 

Because no other social network defines DAU like that. :)

I don't know, I'm not the one building it.

Have *you* tried differentiating users and bots and reporting the findings?

Founder of Mask.io / suji_yan.twitter checkout /firefly-garden

We had 300K people link a Twitter account for our pre-permissionless waitlist. Sampling the data was most accounts were low quality.

Data

I like the accounts / users distinction

Farcaster is a protocol, as long as its rules are followed it intentionally makes no distinction 

users are a subjective subset of this that might map to unique human beings or unique human beings who’s content I don’t think is spammy or some other definition

Here is one of your team members trying to engage in an honest conversation about finding a solution.

Here is one of your team members trying to engage in an honest conversation about finding a solution. 

https://warpcast.com/deodad/0x6eab7d74