if you have a free app in crypto and you say you have N users, then it means nothing and it looks weak.

1) only active users matter
2) there‘s an incredible amount of bots and your free users could be 99% bots.

Just heard an app that „has 8 million users“. The top content on app has 12k lifetime views 🫠

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worth noting our farcaster follower #s follow this delusion, no matter how good it feels :)

Genuinely curious how you would discount followers based on free sign ups on Twitter vs. paid sign ups on Farcaster?

Maybe powerbadge followers

Does overcorrect for lurkers but seems like it would be higher signal

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agreed - end users probably won't switch, but inside professional circles using metrics that are not narrowed to active nor likely human accounts feels like setting the bar pretty low as a space.

Right, but so then you're back to saying the entire industry needs a new metric. Not happening.

twitter has the same delusion :) effective influence signal is ~ weekly active powerbadge followers