Its kind of evil to create bots to try and manipulate a nascent social media platform that is trying to get started, or to spam it generally. Its bad on larger platforms too of course but there's just something particularly antisocial about it. 

Proportionally its like shoplifting from a global conglomerate that treats it as an accounting write-off vs. from a mom-and-pop store trying to get started and whose business and wellbeing you may genuinely aim to undermine.

Interesting @mazmhussain's comments.

He is talking about bots and spam, but I apply it also to farming, t4t, and all the free-riding airdrop strategies. 

So you can do it on big established platforms or the new, small, more fragile ones. In the first case, it is like "shoplifting from a global conglomerate that treats it as an accounting write-off", but in the second case it is like "shoplifting from a mom-and-pop store trying to get started and whose business and well-being you may genuinely aim to undermine".

Farcaster/Degen is the second case. Regardless of all the defensive talk in defense of "fun" (?) and "decentralization" (?) I have no problem dedegening ppl who free-ride our small platform. Because - as Murtaza said - "there is just something particularly antisocial about it".

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