jesse.base.eth 🔵
@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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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
I certainly disagree. It's a sign of incentive misalignment if this "micro work" which provides no positive value is a path to economic prosperity for anyone. I think it's similar to the SEO-ification of the web. Search engines = net positive, SEO=net negative. Tokenomics=net positive. Airdrop farming=net negative
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
It provides usage data and distribution to the protocol. Are you literally missing the entire concept of why protocols do airdrops? What do you think it’s for? lol
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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
Have you seen what airdrop farmers do? Do you think the content from farmers on Farcaster has been a net positive? Protocols want to reward early users who actually provide value, not useless farmers trying to game the system with no interest in helping the protocol succeed.
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
You can’t throw the baby out with the bath water. You’re American with a bank account and social security number and a credit score. Even if they annoy you, which is your complaint I guess, they are still actually providing tons of valuable usage and debugging data to farcaster. Them using the app is the point.
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Joe Petrich 🟪
@jpetrich
Where is this tons of valuable usage and debugging data that a load testing script couldn't provide?
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