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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I'm seeing bot responses all over now, even from actual accounts (i.e. real  people using bots for many of their posts and replies, not a "bot-only" type account.) You can still usually tell that it's a bot, but that window is quickly closing. We could get to a place with each person having a network of custom bots that provide the perfect interactions, and that users will vastly prefer over the messy, real-person social networks.