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ncitron.eth
@ncitron.eth
Should Farcaster decouple clients from algorithms and moderation? We could design a common api specification that allows algorithm providers to be plugged in to any existing client. The main thing against this I think is that it's not clear to me whether the algorithm is actually the main product a client provides.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
It wouldn't be performant without a lot of work. Modern consumer apps use machine learning and the algo needs to be fast. If it's not fast and supplying a lot of content, people churn.
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ncitron.eth
@ncitron.eth
Yeah but the warpcast algo feed is generated quickly? I'm sure this took a bit of engineering effort but I imagine others can do it. The reason I think this would be valuable is that building a good algo is probably one of the hardest things to do when building a client, so standardized algo services would be nice for clients bootstrapping.
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Dan Romero
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@slokh how hard was getting a performant feed? iirc, you said that's a lot of work. @ncitron.eth others can do it, but a) a lot of work b) infrastructure is expensive / requires sophistication to maintain and scale
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sahil
@sahil
@dwr.eth yes its hard, but quite doable. 3 engineers on our team put together a configurable ranking and feed infra for farcaster. It powers global, for you, channel ranking system and feed infra. Its costly, but if it becomes a public service for an open social graph, the innovation and value created at app/client level far exceeds cost.
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