Farcaster

Should Farcaster decouple clients from algorithms and moderation?

We could design a common api specification that allows algorithm providers to be plugged in to any existing client.

The main thing against this I think is that it's not clear to me whether the algorithm is actually the main product a client provides.

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This would have a huge impact on reducing some of the externality costs that a frontend with a superior spam filter could also be responsible with onboarding most spammers, almost a kind of attack that can happen by accident: exacerbating the problem to push everyone to a specific frontend.

But could also be a single point of failure for censorship resistance.