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fuck you Farcaster
Some quick thoughts on people asking how I can support crops and be excited about the changes to @farcaster_xyz Farcaster (the app) has always had moderation and a social contract. @dwr talked about moderation from the beginning. Having rules for an app doesn’t inherently conflict with free speech or censorship resistance We don’t allow shitposting on ethresearch. It’s a space for Ethereum research, and moderation helps keep it useful. That’s reasonable. If the mods started banning research about MEV because they personally didn’t think MEV was a problem, that would be a different story. They’d be using their position to suppress ideas within the discussion the forum is supposed to support I’m directionally for apps experimenting with rules and algorithms that make conversations more productive. We already have algorithms deciding what gets attention, based on what keeps us scrolling. I want people trying other approaches @balajis is changing Farcaster’s social contract and making it explicit. That doesn’t automatically make every rule or moderation decision good. Applying new rules to old posts is a fair thing to criticize. People wrote those posts under different expectations, and signing something today doesn’t erase that But Farcaster being built on an open, decentralized protocol matters here. The app’s moderation rules shouldn’t determine whether you can participate in the underlying network. You should be able to use or build another client with different rules and keep your identity, following, and history. That needs to work in practice, too That’s where my support for CROPS comes in. I want the underlying network to remain open and censorship resistant so different communities can exist on it. I don’t need every app on that network to have the same moderation policy, or to accept every kind of post Personally, I like the direction of the new social contract. I’ve always found the Network State and techno-optimism interesting without agreeing with everything involved. I’m interested in a social app that rewards building, teaching, and disagreeing productively I want to write a full post about this, but I’m starting my travels to India. See you soon @JoinEdgeCity @EFDevcon
