If someone tells you airdrops don’t work, ask them how credit cards got started. 

100M credit cards were dropped in people’s mails before people had to apply for one. 

Oversimplification, but sometimes direct unsolicited distribution works.

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effective marketing constantly changes every decade because socially people adapt to it. 

thats why farcaster in 2024 is not able to grow out of cold start using the same tactics that facebook and twitter used in 2000s. 

Reinvent. Rethink.

I don't think anyone sais they wouldnt work for user acquisition.

What doesnt work is distribution. You can't avoid sybils without proof of personhood

It was done once, just like PayPal and other systems, because inorganic money does not exist.