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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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>back to invite-only until we figure it out

This narrative already exists. I’ve talked to teams building crypto products but not on FC and they said “we tried it for a bit but it’s all bots”

Not sure what the solution is tbh

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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

would love to see your ratio if you don't mind:

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would love to see your ratio if you don't mind:
https://cast-action-bot-or-not.vercel.app/api/frames/reply-stats?fid=1725

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agree. starts will auto follow rework. i think i somehow got put on that during peak signups. there was that one or two week period where a lot of us went from <5k to 20k+. don’t thing a single one of those accounts that followed me during that time are still active

This is facts and already so true

Expand the auto follow list dramatically (and programmatically update it) and make more than ~7 basic categories would go along way to at very least distributing the numbers so it's a little less uncanny valley 

Excited to see @unofficial roll out, the way @christopher broke down their clustering system could be super interesting

I also think staggering the auto follow amount in stages based on activity could be interesting

Start with X based on categories 
Recommend buckets of Y based on revealed interests

Getting people into their pocket in a multi step process would be a lot more effective - right now its firing blanks

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i’ve seen estimations of 2/3 real but tbh it feels lower than that

Do you have thoughts on how many real people are here?

Throwing some data here as food for thoughts:
This chart shows the distribution of actions/day (cast, recast, like, reply, follow, delete) 
246k users were active last month, and most of them are packed in the left, with less than 15/day.
On the right, there's a pack of about 4% spammy accounts with +100/day.

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good data! thanks for pulling 

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Why is it a problem for large accounts to get less than 50 likes? That's only a few people. Same as the rest of us if they post interesting things they'll get more likes, just bc they have a lot of followers doesn't mean every post is a banger. It's good if FC shows us more of our friends posts and less big account posts.

A simple fix would just be to cull  “spammy” users from the follower number client side, no?

Yup noticed this the other day, even 50k accounts getting less than 100 likes which is terrible engagement.

We must kill all the bots, they are the most disruptive to the experience. They love the tipping narrative the most (or those who use them), yet they gain the least

Good idea we must kill the bots and cleanse the system