“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.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

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.

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.

Artist, Designer & Technologist → epr.net

okay; it begs the question. why does the company exist then?

FC is a protocol. 

You can create an account, post a message and read messages even if our company disappears tomorrow.