Farcaster

A petition to @dwr.eth @v @woj.eth and the rest of the Farcaster team to enable us to remove followers from our accounts 🙏🏼

Why is this important?

The Farcaster Rewards algorithm prioritizes accounts with less followers who are more active. As a result, accounts with larger but inactive followings don’t receive good scores and suffer the consequences

X allows people to remove followers from accounts and I don’t see a reason why Farcaster cannot do the same

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Removing followers breaks how the protocol works, not sure how it would practically be achieved. 

It’s the equivalent of forcing someone to stop pointing at you. They’re not touching you, it’s their own action, you can only not point back or just ignore it. Clients like Farcaster (formally Warpcast) have their own layer to handling muting and stuff, but this is part of having a permissionless network.

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It is a mix of onchain and offchain infrastructure that has public/private key cryptography that prevents one actor making unauthorized changes.

OK but you realize the people making Farcaster the client are the same people making Farcaster the protocol

I assume they can do whatever they want on the backend (protocol) and the front end (client) level

It is a mix of onchain and offchain infrastructure that has public/private key cryptography that prevents one actor making unauthorized changes.

https://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/architecture/overview

But Farcaster isn’t run on a blockchain, so it’s not an immutable protocol

I don’t see a problem here