Farcaster Devs

What do we think of channels getting a cut of storage fees when they refer users to create a farcaster account?

I think the value proposition of joining and supporting an exclusive community in the form of farcaster channel is clearer than paying a protocol fee just to join farcaster

cypherpunk wannabe, engineer working on @frames /open-frames /opencast
https://stephancill.co.za create stories at https://stories.steer.fun

It would be ideal if the channel could get the full portion of the fee but you could imagine spammers creating channels to rebate all their sign ups

As a matter of fact, we could do zora style splits between different referring parties

Potential parties
- client
- channel
- user

working on /microsub; creator of @degentipbot.eth; producer/dj; host of /campfire 🎧 + /downshift ⚙️

My thinking was specifically for a client like warpcast, so multi channel. Ofc it makes even more sense for channel-specific clients. I suppose the referral could be any address so could be users as well

Afaik exactly how the protocol fees will be spent is tbd so it’s just sitting in a multisig for now. The fees could be redistributed to users who turn out not to be abusing the network (subjective of course) or maybe to channels (after filtering out spammers)

nice idea to kick around…and maybe even for multi-channel clients? (thinking about it as a referral fee)

btw do you know what the intended purpose of the storage fees is? (besides sybil-resistance, of course)

BCard

Great idea!  In general creating mechanisms to support/monetize communities is a huge need in this space.

One thing we say at /bcard is that we help communities monetize by community building, rather than grant writing.  FC could provide a similar feel with this.