Jesse Pollak 🔵
@jessepollak
negativity towards "airdrop farmers" is misplaced and biased. hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people all over the world have decided that doing microwork for protocols is their best path to economic prosperity. that is incredible and should be celebrated. it's on us to enable them to contribute positively.
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Jesse Pollak 🔵
@jessepollak
note that this perspective does not include people who are fraudulently impersonating / simulating real users - I think this can and should be managed with sybill resistance tools. that said, our research suggests that this is a minority of this activity - there are tons of real human beings who want to contribute!
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Gökhan 🧬💾🚀
@gokhan.eth
while i agree, i suggest you also spend some time amongst the airdrop farming "communities" with huge discords behind paywalls; & see how they resent any real contributors on both dev & enduser ends. misplacements occur on all sides but sybils etc. won't suffice. there is a cultural approach, too. ps: 2nd worlder who
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russian_acai 🌚✨🚽🐇
@acai
know several studios managing literal sweatshops in east asia to bypass sybil detection most projects vastly underestimate the scale of the farming biz
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Timbrrr 🎩🧢 ↑ 🍖
@twb
syncing that research up with the gitcoin passport folks, producing a “guide to good contributing” would be a giant win for the space. Because these negative externalities are not zero, they are in fact endangering people. https://warpcast.com/tmophoto/0x27e24ef9
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ɃΞrn
@b7
Press X for doubt - any published info about your research?
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Joely 🎩🏰
@joely
Agreed 1000 $DEGEN
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