Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast

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Varun Srinivasan

“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

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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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 Ⓜ️ 💜

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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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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Doesn’t sound very decentralized to me!

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Chaotic Neutral

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Darryl Yeo 🛠️

👏👏👏 Keep Farcaster credibly neutral!

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And: some bots are useful.

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drew fagin 🌊

Also worth noting that some bots are good! e.g. @vangogh :)

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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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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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embrace the bots

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Let’s debate live publicly Your spin is off the charts ser

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Chaotic Neutral

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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I'm actually surprised that some people ask you to remove bots. Farcaster's inability to do so is actually not a bug but a feature. That's the very reason why people can trust Farcaster.

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ciefa 🐌 eth/acc

Incredibly based. Farcaster is the future o7

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It's short sighted thinking that puts humans on a pedestal and equates bots as something bad. 1. Bots "learn" engagement farming from humans. 2. What is spam for me, is gold for you.

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Chinmay 🕹️🍿

... In doing so, make sure to not ban a real user. It's really hard though!!

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