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How does Farcaster handle censorship and spam? I watched the YouTube overview, seems like every node is a full sync "archive node" (with 1yr expiry window). Muting happens clientside - What about abusive or illegal content? Can my Hub opt out of storing data from specific authors? Do spammers live rent free on my disk?

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net

Not rent free. they have to pay 5$ per year I guess.

Training myself to become a public market investor .

Who do they pay $5/yr to? Surely it doesn't go to the other Hub operators. Is there a centralized entity collecting that?

For now goes to protocol. 
Detailed discussed on it here

For now goes to protocol. 
Detailed discussed on it here 

https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/98

censorship is based on design that creation of account needs money($5) but can easily be filtered out / banned by individual clients. 
censorship delegated to clients is a reasonable decision since it's very subjective . Different clients can differentiate based on their choices in this regard.

System is still evolving. But from what I understand. 
$5/year per user will be fixed at the protocol/HUB level . Not an option for each hub to make on their own. Messages from users who's fees not paid will be rejected by Hubs.

Oh yikes, this $5/yr *is* the anti-spam mechanism? And they expect each operator to do their own anti-spam on like the honor system or something? No way to ban or censor bad actors, no way to evict Hubs that allow abuse? I gotta say this looks like a huge oversight, I don't think the incentives line up at all here.