Farcaster

Hey all - just wanted to share some of my concerns about the public nature of our casts/behavior on FC.

Hoping for an open dialogue on where we think this is headed, and in the long run, how to provide privacy protections from a user content perspective.

Hey all - just wanted to share some of my concerns about the public nature of our casts/behavior on FC.

Hoping for an open dialogue on where we think this is headed, and in the long run, how to provide privacy protections from a user content perspective.

https://paragraph.xyz/@barrycollier/farcaster-content-graph

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this is at odds with the permissionless north star

backend eng; full-stack curious

writer, icon, retired rave queen

it's a valid concern, it's going to be abused and i'm not concerned about it being abused

in current year you have to assume that AI or something is going to scrape publicly available data, farcaster is far past the 'private clubhouse' era

further to that is that we are still in the benevolent dictator era which means using farcaster implies you are on board with merkle / @dwr.eth and @v north stars, one of the biggest of which is permissionless

but even if that wasn't true i don't think a proposal for privacy by design would win on votes rn

Yeah, I understand

do you think the concern about how it will be abused is valid, or do you believe that all of your personal content being publicly available will never be abused?

because I’ve pointed to some historical examples of how lack of privacy ends badly

I think there are models to satisfy both goals