FIP: Labels

A data standard to annonate context about accounts like language, humanity, spamminess and other qualities.

Labels will make it easy to generate public datasets that are useful for app developers to categorize casts and users.

FIP: Labels

A data standard to annonate context about accounts like language, humanity, spamminess and other qualities.

Labels will make it easy to generate public datasets that are useful for app developers to categorize casts and users. 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/216

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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1. need more expressiveness (label + value) 
2. they are not a relationship, so semantically inaccurate
3. they should work for casts, not just accounts  
4. unlikely to scale on protocol long term, there will be a *lot* of labels for all kinds of stuff

I think there are interesting ways to do this, but I’d like to get to a point where people are consuming labels and have this pain point. 

Right now it’s pretty simple to just poll this dataset on the schedule we announce or have a timestamped checksum for the whole set 

Cc @akshaan

Makes sense. I'm ok with data stored off-protocol, but I would like a way to announce them on-protocol. Say I consumed Warpcast's "spam" labels. How do I know there's a next version? How do I consume the changes? Can we have some type on-protocol announcement? A special cast pointing to the new version? Something similar?