Building in consumer:

Sets the default experience to not have bots
Turns off the experience to not have bots
What are you going to do about the bots?

This is called conflict of interest. When every bot is paying you $5 a year, you are definitely not going to get rid of them.

Don't blame the "consumer". Filtering out every single new user by default is just dumb. It makes it almost impossible for new users without a social circle already on FC to start out.

Genuine question - what do you think we should be doing instead?

Farcaster DAU since we started counting in June 2021

Be honest about how many real users you have. You are currently selling the bots are users.

Sure, technically bots are also users... just not really what people come here for, so whilst technically correct, it's disingenuous.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Be honest about how many real users you have. You are currently selling the bots are users.

Sure, technically bots are also users... just not really what people come here for, so whilst technically correct, it's disingenuous.

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xf073853b

I don't know, I'm not the one building it.

Have *you* tried differentiating users and bots and reporting the findings?

> how many real users you have

What methodology would you use to do this?

What other social networks do this well?

I think its fair criticism that this graph doesn't map 1:1 to high quality accounts. 

@dwr.eth and I understand this, and are very open about it.  I think most people on Farcaster understand it as well.

We've tried different approaches to measuring quality (qDAU etc) but they haven't scaled well for various reasons.