# some thoughts on spam on Farcaster and how to tackle it

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Submitted by misha on 2024-10-13 UTC, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

Spam on Farcaster is best defined as "inauthentic activity," meaning actions like following, liking or replying that are done to benefit the actor rather than out of interest in the other person. The author states that automated activity is not the right definition, since over 75% of the spam they find comes from real humans who have phones, wallets and X accounts. The text is a short introduction and does not describe the specific methods the platform uses to tackle spam.

## Article

Some thoughts on spam on Farcaster and how we tackle it. 

First question - What is spam?  

The naive answer is "automated activity" but this isn't right. Over 75% of spam we find comes from real humans who have phones, wallets and x accounts. 

The best definition is "inauthentic activity". It's that feeling you get when you realize that someone who is following, liking or replying to is doing it to benefit themselves and not because they're interested in you.