I used to think that bots on Farcaster were problematic because of spam, but it's bigger than that.

If I respond to a bot, I feel like an idiot who wasted his time building a connection with a ChatGPT wrapper. 

It makes me suspicious of new users, and I tend to respond primarily to people I already know. This means that it's harder for genuine new users to build relationships on the network.

It could be fine for social *media*, but it's bad for the social *network*. 

What would be the ways to mitigate that?

about to ship some improvements to the spam model that will make a lot of the bots go away. 

will be a constant cat and mouse game, but we will win in the long run.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

How do we help friends, especially non native English speakers who keep getting caught in the net?

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Purple Promoter|Tokyo DAO
Hosting: /moxietools /kyoto /sakura  /anime-manga /tokyotravel

https://www.fan.io/pichi

flag cases where they are being incorrectly labelled - that really helps us improve.

I got a few nonnative art cohort friends as well who got mislabeled world love to help them be more valued.

Thank you. I truly appreciate the time @v 💜

Using @mvr’s frame through my cohort finding some labels of how they are viewed currently. 

For now I have found:
https://warpcast.com/charoa (new user healer and artist)
https://warpcast.com/amir-tabrizi (foreign artist photographer and pixel creator)
https://warpcast.com/jane-knitting (foreign artist empath)
https://warpcast.com/fereshtehfarma3 (foreign artist and amazing painter)
https://warpcast.com/jolenecasko
(collage artist)

My own alt ACCT which I use for testing purposes @jacquec and for when I was stuck in the shadowbanned pit for a while (the account showed fast to have many of its own issues so had to can it for the most part)

In other news:
Thanfully one is no longer marked who has been for MONTHS I just checked here again!