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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
Lately, I've heard ppl saying that a lot of high-quality users are joining Farcaster. So I decided to check the data, and here's what I found: - Since Aug 01, FC has gained 20k new users - 9k casted at least once - 5k casted 1-10 times - 550 casted 100+ times - 160 casted more than 370 times The data (which I got via @neynar) shows that over 50% of the new users have never made a cast. For context, the average OG user, such as @phil, makes about 369 casts per month (root + replies).
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six
@six
50% conversion from signup to cast. nice!
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
The observation is not positive. The other 50% who did cast are not high-quality users, not even close
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six
@six
Are we cooked?
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
If you spend all your time on Warpcast, everything looks great, just like @vitalik.eth recently said. But if you follow @balajis.eth's suggestion and analyze the protocol data, you'll see a different picture, one where the protocol is dominated by very low-quality users and casts. I'm sure @dwr.eth and the team are aware of this issue and have plans to address it, but I can’t speak on the specifics. I also haven’t seen any public information about what the team is doing to tackle it, though maybe I’m just not listening well enough :)
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Oh I've always been assuming that in equilibrium like 99% of raw protocol data will be adversarial AI slop. The whole game is in figuring out how to raise the good stuff to the top.
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
What do you think about using ZK attestations as a solution? With just a click, you can filter the entire network based on all kinds of attestations. Isn’t that a better approach than relying on ML models to clean things up?
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six
@six
We already have reputation attestations, they are called follows
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
Are you saying that you only follow high quality users and vouch for all of them? How much ETH would you bet?
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six
@six
I would bet my entire net worth on 10x leverage that every user I follow is someone i deem high quality by my definition. That is why i followed them There is no inherent definition of high quality, but if you apply everyone’s follows then you get attestations across the network which inform reputation signals like @openrank
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six
@six
You can also take it a step further and treat likes and replies as attestations, which they are
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
Wonderful, but I wont take your word for it, ill look at the data of who you follow just to see if you're honest. But then the next question is, are all other users doing what you are doing?
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