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Farcaster maintaining a steadfast commitment to free speech is vital to its continued growth. 

There's a real degree of civility here. The easy explanation for that is that the community is still small, so people are polite in the same way Iceland is civil or a countryclub is a civil. But I suspect there's another dimension to it: there's money on the line here, and acting rude is a bad way to get people to want to give you any. 

Hopefully that insulates this place against needing to crack down on the kind of bigotry or harmful posting you see on other platforms. But either way, let Substack be the model for /farcaster. Better to allow some vile posting and let the social marketplace sort it out than step into the quagmire of censorship according to shifting social norms.

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It's a good theory, but have you spent any time on CT?

Toxic af and money gets thrown around like nothing else

I suspect it's different when the money is smaller and coupled with value + relationships

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ahhh I haven't spent much time there -- too much spam

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