Varun Srinivasan
@v
“Farcaster must remove all the bots” This is a worrying line of thinking I’m seeing more often. The argument goes that it’s not enough to hide uninteresting content. It *must* be removed from the protocol. That is, someone must judge the worthiness of accounts and delete them from the protocol.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Ethereum does not judge the worthiness of your transaction. If you pay the fee, you can make it happen. Even email doesn’t ban accounts. It only filters spam into a separate inbox. It is very important for credible neutrality that no one has the power to delete accounts that they do not like.
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Eric P. Rhodes
@epr
i understand what you're saying here and maybe 3P devs can build a bot filter product for it. but you're also comparing FC to a protocols when it operates more like an open social media platform built on top of a protocol layer. plus, it's run by a single company which makes it unlike any protocol layer i'm aware of.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
FC is a protocol. You can create an account, post a message and read messages even if our company disappears tomorrow.
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