I bet these Power Badges will become even more valuable in the long run. If you launch an app, you can outsource the heavy lifting of finding quality users to Farcaster. So you'd use their Power Badge API to create an allowlist, just like you can use Farcaster OG NFT. An interesting thing about social media is that the vampire attack is less of a threat than in DeFi. In DeFi, you don't want other apps to onboard your power users since they might move their liquidity to farm yield elsewhere (Uniswap vs. Sushiswap; OpenSea vs. Blur). But on social, the more of a power user someone is, the lower the chances that they'd leave the social network. That's because they already like the status and connections on the previous app, and these qualities are not perfectly fungible like DeFi yield farming. That's one of the reasons why it was so hard to convince Twitter power users to move to Farcaster.
I think providing a solid organic transparent reputation system is essential for ‘social’ social media, in that respect the Power Badge is already a win, besides whatever could be done with the provided API. But of course not being a power user would be fine too, it is just a signal of trust, not for competition - I think you shouldn’t feel FOMO to get one. You’d have to respect some people love to be lurkers. And checking in occasionally you can also do valuable contributions. We don’t have to expect of people to spend all of their lives online in competition for good reputation, but seek a healthy mix between online and real world life. Wen Lurker Badge?
Haha, the lurker badge might be hard to implement, but that's a good point - I think it would be valuable to have more granularity here. Something to catch personas such as: "Top-level caster", "Reply guy", "Meme lord" and so on
I only wish that the power badge was graded in tranches, or enumerated between "blue chip" channels. imho, the binary drop-off doesn't really help anything but FOMO or kind of the same begging/cartelization meta. hopefully the system they have in place is already adaptable, but it would always be nicer to have more granular resolution.