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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Varun Srinivasan
@v
No one likes spammy FC accounts. No one wants XEN to take up all the block space on Ethereum. No one wants spam in their inbox. But the solution is not to have some arbiter who bans things at the protocol level that they do not like.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
The right solution is quality filters - build tools that filter out content that is not interesting to you. Priority mode is our first step in this direction. It’s not perfect but it’s MUCH better than what came before and we will keep improving it.
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
What we will NOT do is start removing accounts from the protocol. This is dangerous and threatens there credible neutrality of farcaster. Be very wary of anyone who advocates for this.
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stonavan
@stonavan
So, how do you encourage new users to join, actively post content, and contribute to building the network if their content is going to be buried? If you don't know enough people from day one and can't connect with them, you're destined to be ignored forever.
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Anchal
@anmworld3
Truly #decentralized social media. Love your take on it. This is what differentiates us from the Web2 world and DOES NOT empower monopoly. Hi there, new to @farcaster and @drakula. Lots to learn😄
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xRev↗︎
@xrev
I deeply believe we need to rank bots more than we need to rank humans (and their accounts). Bad bots should be classified as such and they need to get less exposure. Anyway I don't need filters as much as I need lists of users. Filters are nice but they may filter stuff I want to see while lists can be unfiltered
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