@dwr.eth I think the exit energy on twitter is extremely high rn… highest I’ve ever sensed. And more importantly notes and bluesky are locking down some big subcultures. Any plans to onboard a lot more people? Wondering if there’s a highly crypto friendly crowd that could be onboarded wholesale.

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Generally skeptical of mass exodus -- the reversion of the mean + a little bit higher  from the Mastodon moment happened in January.

I'm always happy to give invites and we're working on getting to permissionlessness for sign ups, but I suspect the biggest issue is people say they are leaving Twitter and then don't.

What's the main reason permissionless signups can't be shipped today? Is it because you want to make sure users make a signature with their connected address before using FC?

1. Spam / air drop farmers would overwhelm the network

2. We have to pay for every sign up to mainnet (we’re fine doing this if quality)

3. Squatting of usernames, impersonation, we’d spend a ton of time on filtering and moderation tooling that doesn’t get the protocol closer to product market fit