Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What should we do with egregious examples of squatted channels? I'm going to call this individual out since it's clearly squatting — @0xg — is sitting on a bunch of city channels and not actively building communities: /denver /la /losangeles /nyc /newyorkcity /newyork /sanfrancisco (Also the multiple variations of city names with no activity is clear squatting and when there are active communities in /los-angeles /sf /new-york.) A few other thoughts: 1. We have a no squatting policy for fnames and we allow ENS for a name that isn't governed by that policy. 2. We never advertised channels as something you buy and own forever. Has been centralized and experimental since we allowed anyone to create a channel last December. 3. I'm sympathetic to someone who is good faith trying to build a community, but that's not squatting. 4. Squatting is squishy, know it when you see, not deterministic. 5. Ultimately, squatters are massive negative externality on the network. It's parasitic, anti-social behavior.
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typeof.eth 🔵
@typeof.eth
Looking at Usage Policy: > Warpcast may remove your channel and will NOT refund your warps if: > ... 2. You squat a channel without using it. If the channels are expiring soon, might be better to wait, but it looks like y'all have been explicit about not allowing squatting. Longer term, I wonder if the move would be to namespace channels under their owner (kinda like NPM orgs) or give them unique IDs and allow for duplicate names, since the issue with squatting is really just taking the name. This solution definitely comes with its own set of problems, though.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
We're thinking of a model similar to FIDs / fnames CID -- onchain, where channel members and followers are mapped Cname and possibly ENS -- you can do a free but managed name and .eth if you want to truly own it. Eventually (after Farcaster has product-market fit / scale), we can decentralize fnames and cnames and at that point they would similarly be sovereign.
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