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Varun Srinivasan

“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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The targeted attacks at you and dan seems peculiar. As if insinuating the bot surge is somehow orchestrated but you both. It's hilarious.

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What I have seen is people pushing back on including the garbage in DAU. The criticism goes that because they are VC-funded, the assumption is DAU is the north star growth metric (probably is), so it incentivizes counting everything. But if the quality takes a dive, humans will leave, even if the garbage stays.

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@ghostlinkz.eth

You are correct. I have been here supporting the protocol since Oct 2022. It’s pathetic to think that users like me are targeting anyone. We all want the same thing at the end of the day. https://x.com/peter_szilagyi/status/1788187688782217515?s=46&t=-ryjZLjDEOK3S34rbvKqgQ

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I take issue with some of the tactics being employed to draw attention to this issue. VCs typically look for hockey stick growth. I think the team is being thoughtful overall. It’s early. Let’s be solution-focused. Being anti-VC feels like a cop out and avoids a nuanced discussion.

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@ghostlinkz.eth

I’m not anti VC. I’m simply pointing out that WC team allowed the spam problem to run wild. Users like me were ignored. I shared data to make my point and still no one cared. The answer is “Twitter is worse” and “if you don’t like it build your own client”

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You’ll have to work with their schedule. These guys have a lot on their hands and the bot issue is not something to be taken lightly.

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@ghostlinkz.eth

I called out that degen was bringing spam on here since Dec/Jan, when V was telling ppl that the channel was mostly legitimate activity. I think it’s more than fair for me to say he was wrong about that, without them getting mad at me. More critical discussion, and less cheerleading, that’s what we need.

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It was legitimate activity for the most part during that time. Even on feb the bots weren’t obvious.

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@ghostlinkz.eth

It was very obvious to me since I was the one making the “most active users” charts. In January, it was degen channel users who started to go for 1000 casts per week and we all know where the network went from there.

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I know everyone of those folks. They're certainly not bots.

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