removing the cost for real users to join and contribute to the network is an existential problem farcaster needs to solve

most people don't pay for social media - doesn't matter if it's $1 or $10 - it's not something they're used to

this is also an existential problem for apps building on farcaster

If you remove cost, you have infinite spam.

If you gate sign ups, it's not permissionless.

Warpcast has tried a couple of large, reasonably scaled experiments with free sign ups and the long term retention rate is basically 0.

why not empower power users to invite their friends? basically decentralize what you were doing in the early days and make it a little bit more scalable?

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Are you talking about the warps reimbursement?

That’s not very clear or known. The rewards also don’t fully pay for what it costs to gift a new user a profile.

Tap invite icon -> Gift a Farcaster account

We will make this clearer.

yes i do that but i still pay to do this myself to onboard my friends