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basil
@itsbasil
right now, the largest accounts—those with 300k+ followers—receive roughly the same amount of likes as accounts with 50k followers; this is a problem if we continue to add bots at current pace, there will be accounts here with 1M+ followers receiving <50 likes per cast if this happens, it will most certainly be the death of the network as a “ghost town” narrative will form & ultimately takeover too many games & protocols have succumbed to the same future not to make this the #1 priority right now so, fuck the dau figures; fuck the vanity following figures; we must kill the bots & cleanse the network imo, this becomes an existential risk if it’s not already
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Garrett
@garrett
any suggestions on how to fix this?
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basil
@itsbasil
yeah, require a social security to sign up (kidding) or biometrics? (cc worldcoin) (also kidding) (kind of) i don’t know that anything can be done about it retrospectively - unless you wanna go against the permissionless/decentralization whataboutism, which tbh, at this point in network maturity, i think is fine network health need be prioritized over growth or new features there’s need to be a massive fc-issued and/or even base-subsidized bounty on the anti-bot/identity front i don’t know too much about the newest tech in that realm but we’ve had to made some kind of progress in the last 5 years if fc could build a bot-proof social graph, every single app would lift it & fc would unstoppable & even become critical to crypto at large ngl, i wouldn’t be opposed to biometrics if the data was encrypted and stored/called from in a decentralized way again, idk too much abt identity, but the solution is out there & exists today; we just need to make it work here
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✿ Gil Alter ✿
@gilalter.eth
Conclusion: it's super difficult and maybe impossible with current technology? You'd expect a company like X to be able to eliminate their bot issues. But even they can't. But yeah, Farcaster should allocate their massive, humungous treasury they've accumulated from investors to fight bots. Though, I think it's not necessarily an existential problem like you say. Farcaster in many ways is already a better social media experience now than traditional SM like Facebook, X, Instagram.
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