Post by @stani • Hey
Can’t believe that today’s most used network distribution strategy is to reward addresses that pretend to be users
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- Lens is in a unique spot where there's an actual chance to identify and reward real users. I think I have a pretty good idea on how to do it.
- i dunno man but the thing is i feel like we are going in circle, people game the system > more sophisticated algos to filter bots > people find another way to game the system > even more sophisticated algorithms > etc
endless cycle
- I think it's OK. If you reach a large number of people, a small portion will stay. If you reach a small number of people in a quality way, a larger portion will stay, but it's not guaranteed to be more... we should reach as much people we can.
- I guess it’s a win win situation. Projects get tvl / active addresses / activity and “decentralisation“ and users get tokens - even better than points ;-).
Not sure I’d like to see “real unique user” numbers for web 3 protocols.
Looks like airdrops are the real play2earn game “crypto” created 🤷♀️ (with mass adoption - inspired by @lens/chainyoda ).
To be fair web2 counts email addresses - at best, web3 is not dramatically worse here imo.
**Assuming we don’t want to KYC everything, what’s a great approach for decentralisation?**
- Reward or airdrop after proof of humanhood. Captcha, world coin, face id, email / sms verification. Or combination. And maybe some on chain things. Ens domain, poaps etc.
- At least they put in the efforts required to pretend
- Quite terrible if you ask me. Tackling bots and sybils remains a top task to handle in web3 I'm afraid