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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Daniel Fernandes
@dfern.eth
I agree that bought-status isn't great, but it's only 1 year, and if I'm not convinced with how it goes, I can just not renew. If I get back more value than I paid, then I can pay that value forward via tips. I agree the 10K limit could have been designed to be less botfarmed, but there are ways to make farming -EV going forward.
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dusan
@ds8
i'm not necessarily against the subscription in general (it's got its issues, but i don't view it as such a huge problem), i don't like how they played the scarcity card — drawing a huge line between those that fit in the limit and the rest merkle should know better than to create such stupid arbitrary divides
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studio whimsi
@whimsi.eth
to me this is mostly a problem due to success rather than trying to force a scarcity mindset dan had set it to 1k thinking it wouldn’t sell out, up’d to 10k to definitely not sell out and then the community proceeded to exceed expectations and sell out 10k in 6h
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dusan
@ds8
yeah, this is my interpretation as well, but i think they should've prepared for this scenario in advance... i know i doubted it's gonna sell out, but probably only because i'd been biased by what dan thought (which may or may not have been genuine)
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