@base contributor #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

What’s an opinion you have (about crypto, and maybe also broadly about life) that you think most of your followers on Farcaster would disagree with?

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.

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

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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I don't agree with your point, and I will explain why. I will start with SEO, as I have been a part of this industry. But first I would like to highlight the difference between some shitty/low quality SEO spam and real SEO strategy that is focused on satisfying users' intent.

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Search engines evolved because they had "an enemy" that they need to fight with. Now we have all this sophisticated stuff like knowledge graphs, intent analysis, reputation of authors and brands. And this is great. 

When it comes to crypto niche and some airdrop hunters - they are battle-testing applications in Web3.

Even sybils are good, because they force blockchain companies find ways to protect against them, making the whole blockchain more transparent but in the decentralized way. 

Bad actors that don't bring direct value that we can measure right now still contribute to the evolution of projects.

SEO (and even the low quality part of it) forced search engines to improve their algorithms to prevent spam and minimize impact of low quality activities on rankings. At the early stage of SEO yes, it was mostly spam, doorways, shitty backlinks, etc. But take a look where we came? Now all this shit is not working.