Ethereum team leader slams Farcaster for bot manipulation

Ethereum team leader Péter Szilágyi criticized Farcaster for alleged bot manipulation, raising concerns about the platform’s transparency.

EthereumPéter Szilágyi, lead developer of , doesn’t seem to be a big fan of Farcasteran open source decentralized social network, implying that the platform is filled with bot manipulations.

In a recent stimulate the activity of the Farcaster community.

Szilágyi claims that there is an “insane conflict of interest” for the network’s developers to not fix the problem, because non-experienced users (those with fewer than 400 subscribers) are filtered out “by default from everyone’s feed.” world,” adding that the current state of the project resembles a “printer of money and users.”

“In my opinion, the biggest problem is that there is an insane conflict of interest for the FC [Farcaster] developers should not get rid of bots. It is a money and user printer. They just need to make them less annoying to entice real users to leave. Peter Szilagyi

As of press time, Farcaster has made no public statement on the matter. Crypto.news has contacted the project and will update the article if we get a response.

This is not the first time that Szilágyi has expressed concerns about the transparency of the network. In February, the blockchain developer questioned Farcaster’s “organic growth” in an article, saying his account on Farcaster had grown tenfold in a matter of days with “0 activity.”

Founded in 2020, Farcaster is a decentralized social network similar to X but built on Optimism, a layer 2 solution for Ethereum. At the end of March, reports surfaced claiming that Merkle Manufactory, the company behind Farcaster, was close to securing a major funding round led by Paradigm, valuing the company at around $1 billion. in July 2022, the cabinet secure $30 million in a round led by a16z crypto.

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