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Varun Srinivasan
@v
“Farcaster must remove all the bots” This is a worrying line of thinking I’m seeing more often. The argument goes that it’s not enough to hide uninteresting content. It *must* be removed from the protocol. That is, someone must judge the worthiness of accounts and delete them from the protocol.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Ethereum does not judge the worthiness of your transaction. If you pay the fee, you can make it happen. Even email doesn’t ban accounts. It only filters spam into a separate inbox. It is very important for credible neutrality that no one has the power to delete accounts that they do not like.
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Devin Conley 🎩
@conley
Any related thoughts about hub sharding or syncing data subsets? Agreed that there should never be an explicit "ban" at the protocol level, but also hard to scale for smaller hub infra without any ability to prefer content of interest
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Jason Goldberg
@betashop.eth
bots, spam, stuff you don't want to see -- will always be there it makes no sense to try to "remove it' from the protocol the focus should be entirely on removing it from the front end UX -- which is a client/app responsibility not a protocol responsibility (like gmail spam filters and promotions tabs for email)
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Launchcaster
@launch
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gill ⚪️
@gill
right on. this is definitely a client level issue, and even a community level issue! it's also tough for a client to handle a problem created by communities building low quality incentive mechanisms that makes it worthwhile for bad actors to build sophisticated bots/engagement farms that will spam timelines everywhere
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Aaron Ferguson 🎩🏰📚🔵
@aaronrferguson.eth
Doesn’t sound very decentralized to me!
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@king
The targeted attacks at you and dan seems peculiar. As if insinuating the bot surge is somehow orchestrated but you both. It's hilarious.
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Chaotic Neutral
@jayce
I am a bot.
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m_j_r
@m-j-r.eth
it's much more a pathfinding challenge between social animals than it is a cannibalistic jungle where any entity gets got. idk where the culture of fearmongering a class of entity originated, but it's not adaptive to modern circumstances.
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drew fagin 🌊
@drews.eth
Also worth noting that some bots are good! e.g. @vangogh :)
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jacopo
@jacopo.eth
embrace the bots
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depatchedmode 🎩
@depatchedmode
And: some bots are useful.
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
👏👏👏 Keep Farcaster credibly neutral!
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ciefa
@ciefa.eth
Incredibly based. Farcaster is the future o7
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Chaotic Neutral
@jayce
Might one route be to add a level of feed control to starve weak content? Personally I’d like to determine who appears in my feed: this could be at the individual level, people I follow in channel level, channel level, or even for the brave, all content level. It’s matrix-able.
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gtscottyyy 🎩
@gtscottyyy
This is why I don’t want priority anything. Sure I’ll see a few bot replies, etc but there are many great casters without power badge and I’d rather filter/mute/whatever vs semi-blindly removing all I appreciate the option
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DegenFans 🎩🔵🫂
@degenfans
I want to stay ✌️
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Weirdo 🎩🍖🪬🧿🫂 🐹
@weirdo
Censorship seems like a slippery slope, perhaps a system design that financially disincentivizes the use of bots and rewards human behaviors is a better starting point.
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oliver
@oliverk120.eth
I don’t think that’s what most people mean. I think if warpcast has a good filtering algorithm to just not show that stuff on the main page, then we’re good
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