layover in japan, want to buy fun vending machine snacks but no pasmo card 😔

The spam filtering dilemma

Sharing how we think about it so people can better understand:

1. Most people will only use social networks if they are fun

2. Casting something and getting dozens of spammy replies is not fun

3. If you get enough spammy replies, you'll just stop using the app

4. So, aggressively filtering for spam is necessary to keep your existing users happy

5. However, this means some good new users will hit spam filters. Understatement: this is a bad user experience for those people. It would be great to not have this happen.

6. But given the choice of who to make unhappy — an existing user who has invested a ton of time and energy into the network or a new user that is most likely to churn (top tier social networks lose 50% of users!), then you have to optimize for your existing users.

7. So does that mean you don’t care about new users? No! It’s existential to have new users be able to join Farcaster and find people to connect with — without being labeled as spam.

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"I'm not a spammy, I'm a real person not a bot." or "Just use proof of humanity to solve spam."

1. Spam is relative: you might not find something spammy but another person might find it spammy.

2. If you are casting in your home feed or to people who chose to follow you, then it's by definition not spammy

3. If you are casting *at* someone else, then their opinion does matter. It's no different than walking up to someone on the street and trying to strike up a conversation with them.

4. Fundamentally, spam is unwanted inbound that tries to get someone's attention (literally what spam email is).

5. Humans can be spammy and bots can be not spammy.

6. What proof of humanity does is limits how fast new accounts can get created, i.e. if you want to create 1000 accounts, you now have to get 1000 proof of humanity credentials. That's friction.

7. However, if you have proof of humanity, you can still be spammy (and still hook your account up to ChatGPT, etc.).

spent the weekend with my granddad, he is 85 now and got married at 25

he started the family in a poor, socialist country, in a depth of the cold war, with no real career prospects or financial security

average 25 year old men these days are 10x better off and don’t even consider starting families

feels backwards 

Memes

doom scrolling warpcast is like eating shit

OpenSea has received a Wells notice from the SEC threatening to sue us because they believe NFTs on our platform are securities.

We're shocked the SEC would make such a sweeping move against creators and artists. But we're ready to stand up and fight.

This is a move into uncharted territory. By targeting NFTs, the SEC would stifle innovation on an even broader scale: hundreds of thousands of online artists and creatives are at risk, and many do not have the resources to defend themselves.

In addition to standing our own ground, we're pledging $5M to help cover legal fees for NFT creators and devs that receive a Wells notice. Every creator, big or small, should be able to innovate without fear.

I hope the SEC will come to its senses sooner rather than later, and that they'll listen with an open mind.

Until then, we'll stand up and fight for our industry.

Onwards 🌊⛵️

WE ARE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM HERE IN BRAZIL

Congrats and welcome to the club!

I’m long wells notice companies.

Congrats and welcome to the club!

I’m long wells notice companies. https://t.co/cye8T5AlyS

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Hi Casters. I am reminded that the addition of just one person into your feed can materially improve a social media product. For me that was following @mazmhussain here sometime in the last week. It's not the first time that has happened to me here at Farcaster and each time the experience has leveled up a lot.

Big announcement!

I'm now a co-founder at @electricsql along with the James/Valter and the brilliant team they've built.

We're solving local caching of Postgres data.

Electric is a VC-backed devtools OSS startup.  We're close to our first beta release so come check us out!

12 years ago I dropped out of school to build a PKI-based identity for regular people

7.5 years ago, we shut it down and joined @coinbase to see that vision through

today, I feel we are closer than ever to accomplishing it onchain. now is our time!

Base

co-founder of generational.xyz, investor, exploring onchain & exploring the 🌍, nomad

base hit 40 transactions per second yesterday, highest ever

onchain summer is real 🔵🌊

Brain

@wiq