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

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If we interact with people who are labeled, does that help the algorithm see them to be reevaluated?

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Yes but it works in reverse too. 

If your account primarily interacts with spammer, it’s likely that you are a spammer

So we should avoid interacting with posts in the “show more replies” bucket because our own account might be labeled as spammy?

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Thanks! This answers my questions for the most part. Does the algo also apply in channels? Aka if your community has been mostly marked as spammy and you only interact with them in channels where you are mutual members, does that hurt you too or do the rules not apply because you are interacting only in channels where you are both mutual members.

No, for many reasons: 

1. It is one of a 100 different signals. So yes if you interact with a lot of people your probability of being spammy might go up by like 2%

2. Lots of people in show more are not spammy. For example, most non-members of a channel are in there when they cast in a channel. 

3. Relative ratios also matter. If you interact with 90% spammy people, then yes. But if its like 20%, then much less likely.

I think for new people channels is the way to go until they make more friends.

It is brutal tbh. So people should all join channels in this way and never interact with anyone outside of channel ?

Don’t miss the word „primarily“ 😉