Farcaster

I used to think that bots on Farcaster were problematic because of spam, but it's bigger than that.

If I respond to a bot, I feel like an idiot who wasted his time building a connection with a ChatGPT wrapper. 

It makes me suspicious of new users, and I tend to respond primarily to people I already know. This means that it's harder for genuine new users to build relationships on the network.

It could be fine for social *media*, but it's bad for the social *network*. 

What would be the ways to mitigate that?

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

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Yeah, I wonder if @farcaster implemented KYC / KYB in onboarding new users, if this would serve us sorting function. 

They could still let people be anon, but know that there’s a real human with a heart, soul and noggin behind profile. 

What do you think @macbudkowski?

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Perhaps, but that requirement certainly would mitigate any of the bot users signing up in mass.

If they use any KYC, I think it should be optional