Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
One thing I was wrong about over the last few years: sign up costs would dramatically reduce spam. Turns out spam is a top 3 problem (aside from retention and infrastructure scaling) to solve for when building a permissionless decentralized social networking protocol. Spammers are willing to pay for sign ups at prices that normal users aren't. Spam is also relative: what's spammy for one person is not for another. Corollary: when you talk to developers building on Farcaster, spam is a top of mind issue whereas users giving product feedback but not actively building in the ecosystem tend to think this isn't that big an issue / not that hard a problem to solve. Also a good proxy for the quality of first principles thinking when suggesting "why don't you just do this?" if you haven't considered how would spammers abuse this and what's the solution.
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rob.dimo
@robmsolomon
What if we could use zktls to prove we’re who we say we are plus an ability to prioritize verified users in feeds and comments? @eulerlagrange.eth
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EulerLagrange.eth
@eulerlagrange.eth
It’s not a silver bullet. If twitter was used as a signal I myself would’ve been nerfed by the feed. The right web2 sources are hard to fake, but is never one size fits all. Recently I’ve concluded channels need PMF first.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Just because you have a credential doesn’t necessarily mean the content isn’t spammy or is interesting
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