Farcaster

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.

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

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.

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.

This would have a huge impact on reducing some of the externality costs that a frontend with a superior spam filter could also be responsible with onboarding most spammers, almost a kind of attack that can happen by accident: exacerbating the problem to push everyone to a specific frontend.

But could also be a single point of failure for censorship resistance.

What's up ncitron hope you are doing well today. 

What are you up to?