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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Nastya
@nastya
Some thoughts: - Farcaster has always felt more like a club - it’s hard for outsiders to break in even with a valuable content or work. If you join without having popular friends here, almost no one will see your posts. - I've been early user, but not "elite" by many criteria - fid not low enough, not enough popular friends to get a pro badge (when it was a thing) etc. This new experiment is at least one of the most open so far, letting anyone participate regardless of when they joined.
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