These are the vibes we should avoid imo

Status games are a slippery slope and there are already a bunch of “social” apps available if people want to play them

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feels more like it's a temporary band aid solution to a larger problem with surfacing new users in the feed

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Yeah I think so too but I think there are also better solutions here (and I’m sure the Merkle team and others will continue to experiment)

Lean into invites more given that most new users are invited by current users

Allow new users to be boosted to their inviter’s graph and even explicitly show that connection across the UI to add credibility

Invites — and even just follows — are great forms of vouches with some built-in degree of accountability

i agree. curious to hear what your ideas are for better solutions

automating the process of identifying new accounts that produce good content seems like a hard problem