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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Why don't you clean up "the bots"? Useful to be precise here: "bots" is a catch all term that people use to describe low effort, uninteresting or otherwise off-topic content. However, a "bot" is traditionally thought of as a programmatic account, i.e. controlled by a script or software. e.g. bot net When people on Farcaster refer to "bots" they are more often referring to actual people using a mobile device (with the aid of translation tools and ChatGPT) who post uninteresting content (from their pov). They are casting and replying in hopes of appearing to be a "real account" because they have learned that turns into a future economic reward in crypto. Recent tipping meta has increased the expected value of these accounts. It's possible to algorithmically label these accounts, but then you create a "shadowban" meta. So you massively increase the number of support messages and complaints. This was the state of the world before priority mode.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Further: 1. Meta estimates that 10% of users on their products are potentially bots. 300 million accounts. Says it's hard a problem to solve (even for them). 2. web2 social networks can delete accounts. Farcaster cannot. Warpcast can label as spam / reduce visibility.
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0xWoc
@wei-f
This is indeed a problem faced by all social networks. Is there any way to reduce their use by increasing costs? But this will also increase the cost of use for ordinary users
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