fc-updates

We’re considering adding "Block" to Warpcast.

Trolly behavior has increased as the network has grown. Some users constantly pile onto people they dislike with quotes and replies. Mute was enough when FC was smaller, but users need better tools. 

If you're an FC dev, would you want to add block to your app?

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Block is difficult to get right in a decentralized way. So the initial version will be a Warpcast level feature. If you block someone: 

1. They can't quote cast or reply (using Warpcast)
2. They won't show up in your feed, search or notifications

A user's blocklist will be made publicly available over an API so you can integrate it into your applications. If this is something you'd use, please DM me.

Primary challenge being privacy? Or storage cost of the new Message type. 

If it's privacy, maybe Block messages can be encrypted with the public key of the signer. That way only the signer App can check to see if someone is blocked. 

Although that prevents it from being a user-global list. 

Or can encrypt with the users' public key. Then it's a global list and users have to allow apps access to their block list one time or whenever they make changes to their list AND change apps.

I'm sure there's a workable scheme here somewhere...