Dan Romero on Farcaster

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https://opensea.io/collection/dev-21

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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?

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1. Hubs don’t host images. 2. We expect moderation to happen at client side. 3. There’s a $5 a year cost to use the protocol and a max number of messages per user.

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Hey look, you are hosting an image - iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVR42mP8z8BQDwAEhQGAhKmMIQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==

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Doesn’t feel like this is going to be productive. :)

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Sir, I'm sorry you feel that way, but I think I'm asking good questions that your protocol needs to answer. It's certainly possible to embed contraband in the (limited) text allowance.

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Warpcast is a US based company. If you do something illegal in the 320 character limit of a cast, we will: 1. Nerf your account (ie make your content not visible on Warpcast) 2. If it requires further legal action required by law, we would comply.

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Appreciate your time and replies; I can see how this will suffice for now, but I think my concerns are outstanding in the longterm as registration opens up and becomes more decentralized. I guess we will see! I will hope for the best, though I'm not sure hope suffices here.

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Hubs storage design is currently for 10 million users with ~10K messages each. Cost is $5 a year. If you stop paying true data gets purged. If a user gets marked as a spammer, little incentive to keep paying.

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If/when we scale beyond that we’ll likely move to sharding.

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I have nothing but love and respect for the effort yall have put in here, but I have to admit I feel compelled to run some red team here (in an effort to help improve) and test these assumptions, see how much damage a motivated spammer could actually do.

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