dusan 🎩
@ds8
i’m usually the last to hate on experiments, but farcaster PRO is hands-down the least thought-through feature merkle has ever rolled out. and that is an understatement. (disclaimer: i’m a late pro holder—no nft for me. so i get it might sound salty, but I’ve had this rant sitting in my drafts even before the release, so bear with me) 1) it’s a terrible signal for willingness to pay. people buy worse crap when it means any kind of exclusivity 2) it’s driving a massive wedge between PROs and everyone else. not even 24 hours in, and we’ve got exclusive airdrops and gated content popping up. that’d be kinda okay if merkle was orchestrating it, but nope—it’s bottom-up. the mind virus has spread, and now early PRO holders are treated like some elite class of crypto royalty bought status works in stuffy nightclubs or country clubs, where there’s a velvet rope and a bouncer to keep the outgroup out. but not so much on a social network 1/2
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Anna Morris
@klusya
Thank you for saying this out loud! I'm so tired of this scarcity thinking in crypto. I think the subscription in itself is a fine business model (if it offers features worth paying for, or even as charity), but whyyyy did it need to have that speculative jpg attached to it. Did they need the money so badly?
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dusan 🎩
@ds8
precisely. subscription is fine, forced exclusivity is not.
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