Farcaster

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?

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yes, have been saying this. trite "but what if bots add value" fails to capture the impact of bot-paranoia on real human users -- who lets not forget are the source of value in this network

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maybe bots should have some icon next to their names so we know they're bots?