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

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

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

i don't agree that most people will be, and i also don't think outside of regulatory concerns the goal is truly unlimited growth potential

based on my experience, not giving users the ability to limit the use of their data will both limit adoption and will ultimately lead to potential regulatory exposure if it gets large enough

you may not be concerned, but most people will be.. so it feels like it puts an unnecessary cap on the growth potential