Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Some additional notes: 

* social accounts must be at least 18 months old 

* verified accounts are much less likely to get the spam label (but can still get them if they behave in a way that is spammy or inauthentic) 

* verifications do not guarantee that someone is human, but they make it very difficult to spin up a lot of fake accounts quickly. this is very important as storage prices are set to reduce significantly

Kind of odd I'm going to get locked out of everything because I don't own any socials over 18 months old

And as a bonus have increased chances of getting a spam label

Is my social presence here of over a year not worth anything? Why lean to other apps only?

hamst.art $hamster /hamster 
martinvr.eth 
deploy.degen.eth

Pi-chi.eth (she/her) Artist /animeoutcasts
Hosting: /sakura /kyoto /momiji  /anime-manga /farcasterunion

https://portrait.so/pichi

Let's hope it turns out to be a bad dream

Hustler. 
Building ENSify and other cool stuff /pulp /driporskip /thekey /nfthreat-art /italiano

There will be more options later. It's weird they already start pushing the changes with a very limited set of options.

they want us to use X instead of FC, It’s the only possible explanation.

They are so obsessed with bots they can’t even see they are losing all the audience

community builder-duck #001

/ecocaster /base-bulgarian /ventures

The initial set of users was all recruited from Twitter I guess so no harm done there? I think who earned over 600 even provided their ssn

For them it's not a social app for communication, but a videogame, but I can understand - 80% are here for money, and a lot of bots + farms 
I really hope real people don't get hurt.

enthusiast, adhd, drum & bass, plant based food, warm weather, les mills, self improvement, history, finance 🫶🏼

Just one quick check onchain that proves you're human, great idea! 
wait I think that already exists?

49 $degen
8👏

Hasn't web3 been building proof-of-being-legit stuff for years now.. you know, on that blockchain thing where they say all your history is stored (I know it's probably not true)

This Means More.
Everything about your degen tips: https://dune.com/fookin_no_wan/farcaster-degen-tips-stats

I guess they don't override us if we manage to get 2 checkmarks for the social verifications

This doesn't sounds fair for us who have been active here for the past year or even more to get overridden by new comer who was 100% active on X but not here. Can't believe what I read

A teller / of stories, that is me. / Curious to learn new ways to see. / Proud dad of two. Now, what / about you? | Builds https://paragraph.xyz/@trpplffct

They can check my wallet for the coinbase kyc check, should be good enough no

Don't you think they also scare away newcomers with the phone number requirement? Assuming most don't have an 18 months old github account

Yep, having similar feels.

I think with these rules they have mainly focused on solving the problem of assessing newcomers, and have not focused on the few of us that have been here for a bit longer. I think I'm here about 2 years now. I do have other socials, but basically don't use them anymore.
I would love to see some FC Native Verifications.

Don't think they even considered that there could be FC-maxies...
It's sad that they often lose sight of the user experience in their choices. They usually fix it over time, but the damage is done.

Really odd direction to go for “blockchain social media” where were the “owners” of our content…

To be fair for everyone. When I said everyone. I meant both the old, the OGs, and the new members. They can add farcaster og nfts as condition for the old members and stick to the already set conditions for the new members. I think this would be fair.