What would happen if you could mint other people's stuff?

The author argues that third parties minting other people's onchain posts could become a strong signal of quotability and trust, and that a Farcaster frame by Sean, run by an /anthropology member, already does this. Sean's frame lets users enter any cast, waits for an image, and offers the result as an NFT for a couple of dollars. The author says the approach fixes the problem that creators must mint their own posts, and compares it to how Google's original inlink ranking and the Wayback Machine judge content by how many others reference or store it. The author also links the idea to Farcaster's planned trust mechanism, which follows Varun Srinivasan's announcement that the active badge is going away because spammy accounts were gaming it.