Some thoughts on spam on Farcaster and how we tackle it. 

First question - What is spam?  

The naive answer is "automated activity" but this isn't right. Over 75% of spam we find comes from real humans who have phones, wallets and x accounts. 

The best definition is "inauthentic activity". It's that feeling you get when you realize that someone who is following, liking or replying to is doing it to benefit themselves and not because they're interested in you.

AMA - anything you want to know about spam after reading this thread

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

1- Thoughts on publishing the output for other app devs to utilize? Or is this a strategic differentiator for wc?

2- Any plans for reputation scores from the perspective of an account vs the entire network? Your spam might be my friend saying hello to me in an inside joke fashion of one letter at a time

Ethereum builder & people connector. @juicebox revnet.eth.sucks defifa.net d33m.com

1. We want to share it, but if spammers are able to see the labels in real time they can figure out what signals we use and work around it. So we can’t make it totally public 

2. That’s what the follow model is for. If you follow someone you’ll always see their stuff