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.

thank you for the insight. not all of us are able to really quanitfy how difficult your daily tasks are with the added stress of performing. a window like this into problems is helpful. goodluck and im enjoyin the process.

yea im unable to really provide any cheeky perspextive either...

Not looking for sympathy, lol

Just think it's interesting that people don't have a good model for "how do you solve X while also solving for spam?"