Farcaster Devs

Should we introduce a new sign up tier to reduce the cost of signing up? 

Would be low cost (< 25c) but come with much smaller storage limits like maybe 10 casts, 100 follows or something like that.

A longer thread with problem statement and reason. 

Eth charges fees to protect against ddos and lots of similar precedent in tradfi. So eth never "goes down" or is "too hard to sync" in practice. Fees are more palatable because there is expectation of profit per tx. 

For social media, there is (usually) no expectation or profit or precedent for a paywalled app that succeeded. It seem inevitable that we need at least some upsell for users to get in and contribute before we can charge them. 

But we can't also let the network go down or get congested, because then no one can build apps.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Interesting take! So the real challenge is balancing accessibility with sustainability—how do we build a model where users contribute value upfront, without risking adoption or usability?