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Serious question: What do you think is the best way to measure high-quality users on Farcaster right now? Would you use the Power Badge or something else?

Quality/high-quality are subjective descriptors (example: some view accounts casting $degen hundreds of times per day to be spam; others do not)

The number of Power Badge-holding accounts is a more honest approximation of DAU than what is recorded in the Dune dashboard

I agree with you, the true qDAU number is much lower. The power badge is also held by many users who I personally consider spammy. So I think we need new algorithms to count the number of high-quality users on Farcaster. Testing multiple algos would allow us to make meaningful comparisons

Here and posting every day, have paid to host my own channel, but no power badge. I would certainly consider myself a DAU so I don’t think that logic works.