Farcaster

Apparently 194 of my followers came from auto follow, a whoppin' 7%.

How should we feel about a system that pushed hundreds of thousands of auto follows to some accounts, to bootstrap their local celebrity status?

Is this a premine? 😅

Apparently 194 of my followers came from auto follow, a whoppin' 7%.

How should we feel about a system that pushed hundreds of thousands of auto follows to some accounts, to bootstrap their local celebrity status?

Is this a premine? 😅

https://dune.com/chasesommer/farcaster-auto-follow

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

That's a lot of words to say "yes, it's a premine". :P

I casted in channels, I even co-hosted ~5 channels, had a number of high engagement posts, I definitely earned my 194 autofollows per this formula!

I told people last summer to cast in channels. People who casted in channels and got engagement got added to the list.

200+ people were in the pool.

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Abundance Economy book: book.abundance.id

It is what it is? The system will be judged on its "upward mobility" over time. If 5 years down the road Auto-follow ("Old Money") users will still be dominating the network that's probably a bad sign.

I like pleasure spiked with blockchain and music is my aeroplane. It's my aeroplane. /pizzadao underboss and /pixelwooks co-lead. Featured in "Number Go Up" 📖

Who knows, I'm not mad either way, and I think it's a great idea to get rid of the autofollow lists, but it does indirectly feel like pulling up the ladder from behind.

Why is it you ended up on the auto follow list to begin with?

For me it's 13%, who knew 😯 But total the follower count is off by about a 400, probably they are the ones who unfollowed