Seeing how the experiments of other, mostly open-floodgates decentralized platforms have panned out makes my opinion more strongly held that a limited growth, invite only approach is a strong quality maintainer, albeit at the expense of DAU growth.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

One recent case study: there is a rapidly growing ZKML chat and you can just see the slow decline in good participation

If you’re going to be invite only, you should be more aggressive in pursuing users. This way there’s less trade off and more potential upside