Decentralized social media (DeSo) app friend.tech has been met with intense criticism over a decision to punish users who opt in to forks or copycat versions of its tokenized social media platform.
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 “To make sure loyal users are rewarded fairly during our beta, users moving to forks and copies will automatically opt out of earning Points and forfeit existing points,” wrote the official friend.tech X account in an Aug. 28 tweet.
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Friend.tech has been airdropping “reward points” to its beta testers every week, which will total a distribution of 100 million points over 6 months.
The team has not yet shared what the points will be ultimately used for, only mentioning on Aug. 15 it “will have a special purpose when the app enters official release status.”
In a latest statement on X(Twitter), Friend.tech admitted the prior decision to punish users was a stupid decision and apologized for the wrong message sent to users.
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Friend.tech have declined more than 90% from its peak of nearly 525,000 transactions on Aug. 21, with less than 50,000 cumulative transactions on Aug. 28, according to data from Dune Analytics.
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Friend.Tech Say Sorry to the Prior Statement of Punishing Users If They Use Copycat Apps

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