What are the "DePIN" projects that people think are most likely to actually work?

It feels like the category is a new name for something that's been around for a decade (StorJ, various decentralized ubers...) but has never gotten off the ground? So what's the bull case for why it will get off the ground now?

skem. Go to the discord and ask mods what this extension is actually doing. They deeplinked the entirety of Medium in like 3 days.

How is it a scam though? They pretty clearly disclose what is going on.

You don't get something for nothing. All rewards are physically traced to addresses. Their blog post spooped me. I will still mine uptime but it's on my brave user and I don't put logins there now.

I see. I run mine on an old, wiped laptop using chromium that isn’t logged-in to a Google account.