Farcaster

rewards leaderboard has been a success so far imo by rewarding consistent posters and tapping into innate human competitiveness. users yearn for leaderboards and points.

a few unfortunate side effects so far with regards to content on the timeline:
- direct incentive to lazily copy paste content while scrolling twitter and pass it off as your own 
- inauthentic accounts mirroring the interests of popular accounts to farm engagement
- incentive for top level casts > replies which may blunt conversational impulse
- rings of accounts making quid pro quo agreements to boost each other’s content

been thinking a lot about online identity and how we value content post- gen ai, and the rewards leaderboard has been an excellent prompt to explore these ideas. writing coming soon ish.

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Unfortunately pretty much all forms of incentivisation have these side effects, including Kaito.

Kaito incentivizes spam. It is not infofi. I look forward to the day X bans it, so that we get better quality content from CT (or you know, they full port here, and we have better algorithms).