Farcaster

"Just use proof-of-humanity"

See the point about real human using a mobile device. That doesn't solve the problem.

"Just use another social network signal"
Plenty of "bot" accounts on Twitter, also now on GitHub because of Starknet.

Why don't you clean up "the bots"?

Useful to be precise here: "bots" is a catch all term that people use to describe low effort, uninteresting or otherwise off-topic content.

However, a "bot" is traditionally thought of as a programmatic account, i.e. controlled by a script or software. e.g. bot net

When people on Farcaster refer to "bots" they are more often referring to actual people using a mobile device (with the aid of translation tools and ChatGPT) who post uninteresting content (from their pov).

They are casting and replying in hopes of appearing to be a "real account" because they have learned that turns into a future economic reward in crypto. Recent tipping meta has increased the expected value of these accounts.

It's possible to algorithmically label these accounts, but then you create a "shadowban" meta. So you massively increase the number of support messages and complaints. This was the state of the world before priority mode.

PoH is a solution for sybils, not for low effort content

Still worth considering though imo, as I think there is some degree of sybiling going on here

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Multiple accounts/identities controlled by one human

How about adding a "limited interaction" mode to the app making the account mostly "read-only" until PoH is completed?

There's likely some, but anecdotally sign up on Warpcast happens via App Store and that's hard to game from a payment standpoint. Possible, but much more likely to be manual.