Farcaster

A reminder on channels

- Channels are *not* decentralized yet

- Do not squat channel names with the intention to sell them to brands later; this is extractive behavior

- When channels are decentralized and incorporated into the protocol later this year (likely onchain!), then you can do what you want! Just like FIDs

I understand what are you trying to do, but for me it is not necessary at all:
1) We used to have Facebook squater, Twitter squater,... it is a fair competition for everyone. If the squatter actually build a good channel, the brand will soon buy back/ fund for the channel to keep operating.

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2) if they are bad squatters, and do nothing else, the channel will soon eliminated and ignore by the community. The legit channel with professional marketing strategy/ contents will replace them in community' sense
3) Increase the fee to maintain a channel if you don't want squatter take them

4) give real-active channel "active badge" to eliminate the fakers