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.

AMA - anything you want to know about spam after reading this thread

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

crazy how much things have improved. From a point where every cast I posted received upwards of 100 chinese replies to now, where it's better than X and bluesky.

with the knowledge you have today, what would you have done differently when you were building the protocol?

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biggest mistake was trying to make spam classification binary. 

would have introduced 3 levels to the classifier early on and trained it on those classifications instead.