Varun Srinivasan on Farcaster

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Varun Srinivasan

Farcaster Verifications are coming soon Verify your account by connecting two socials (X, Phone or GitHub) and holding $25 in your wallet. Verified accounts are less likely to get the spam label and show up higher in the feed, replies and search. They are necessary to earn weekly rewards and qualify for airdrops

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Varun Srinivasan

Why are we doing this? There are many inauthentic accounts trying to farm airdrops and rewards. Completing verifications allows authentic accounts to stand out by proving things that are hard to fake, like having socials on other networks and holding a balance for a long period of time.

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I completely understand why you are doing this. But in case it’s helpful feedback: I won’t be able to complete these verifications. Because I don’t have other socials. I also don’t like to associate my phone number to things, as that essentially gives out my IRL identity. So I’m sad that it’s happening. Because I imagine it’ll be the beginning of the end of my time on here. Again, I totally understand why you’re doing it. It does make sense. I just wanted to give you some honest feedback. Thanks :)

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after the coinbase leak probably zero chance i'd be comfortable giving out phone to a crypto app

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@androidsixteen.eth

No grandfathering policy? I don’t want to verify other socials, but seems like that would punish me in the algo and disqualify me for airdrops / rewards?

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@tokenizedhuman

Hang on, no more weekly rewards or airdrops if I don't verify my phone number? I'm not a bot, I'm a genuine caster but more than anything else, I'm pro anonymity. How is referring a phone number, essential for proving authenticity?

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Discord doesn't count?

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Didn't we already do this? What's mew?

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might've missed but is this something available to builders either thru a farcaster or neynar api?

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i dont have a github account and i prefer to not share my cell, no other ways? :/

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Please change the $25 for only ETH, I hold USDC but it’s not showing up in my verifications. cc @v

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Hmm. I get why you're doing this. But I don't have github, have not been on X in ages (planning completely delete on my 17th Twitterversary in June, because I'm here). So, I will not be verified? I was here before permissionless, I held my OG NFT because it's a badge of honor to me. Now does this mean I will no longer qualify for rewards? To be clear: I bailed on X to build my presence here. Since I came over, my X account is as good as abandoned. Because I'm here. So, there's not much to verify. I get why, and I see what you're doing for newer accounts, but can I please get some other criteria. Like OG NFT from the original drop? An active FID in the lower 5 digits, since before permissionless? Being trustworthy enough to get two relatively generic and now reasonably active channels (/poetry and /f1) appointed when we went to permissionless.

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That's a bad 2/3 options imo Most social media users don't have github so that's already super limiting. If you're not a dev, you probably don't have github X as a requirement is tricky bc many people don't like X and weren't active there which is part of why they may find FC attractive Bad dependencies that severely limit the potential pool of users eligible for rewards and airdrops

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@ashwinikumar.eth

@a5ht4r @majidjeelani yall might have a relief soon.

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What do you mean by private at launch? Only the people with verification badge will be able to see they have it? How would this affect other clients /recaster /fiids ?

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I too am sad to see Farcaster move in this direction. I'd be happy with a scheme that allows preserving anonymity, yet too expensive for spammers. Take a look at /passport; they have tried hard to integrate many verification methods yet to preserve privacy-protecting paths along the way. https://passport.human.tech/

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how about brand accounts like @megaphone-hq ?

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Brennen Schlueter

ah yes the age old sybil problem no ones actually figured out

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@deanpierce.eth

Surely there could be some Neynar threshold or something that would also qualify accounts as "verified". IMO bootstrapping reputation with external social networks should be an optional one time thing, not a persistent requirement.

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Philippe Castonguay

Don’t want to be pessimistic, but having fought bots in games some years ago, when they were even less sophisticated, these measures cost nothing and are going to give you a false sense of security

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