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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Rch
@rch
sat on this for a bit before writing :) 1. i think you’re being a bit harsh. it’s not easy getting people to pay $120 for utility; especially in crypto, where the founder’s been upfront there’s no speculative upside or perks. 2. you're right on the outcome. it’s played out the same before too with active badge, power badge, spam labels. stuff like this emerges bottom up. and with fc being open, it’s bound to happen. today, apps lazily use explicit signals set by fc to find users. eventually, they’ll get smarter with open data. we can debate what’s fairer, but people will always feel left out. i don’t think this launch was careless. it surfaced interesting signals about the network. only gripe i have is given where fc is on pmf, was this really the most important thing they could have worked on? p.s. tone gets lost online. treat this as a gentle disagreement. you're one of my fav people on farcaster and still are :)
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dusan 🎩
@ds8
> where the founder's been upfront there's no speculative upside people think otherwise. and dan is smart enough to understand it. this was imo the ultimate mistake the intention to create fomo this way to achieve... what exactly?... is disappointing
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