God, these crypto "airdrop" scams annoy me... it's just as bad on Twitter. I'm active in Community Notes and the inbox is like 1/3rd far-right conspiracies, 1/3rd other politics, and 1/3rd of zkSync scam alerts - never figured out what zkSync is or if that itself is some scam, it wouldn't surprise me.
Some of these are even able to fake the target URL - the Tweet Card shows them going to "starknet [.] io", but hover over the link and it will actually point to "reward - zksync [.] club". I wonder what the fuck is going on at Twitter that they're unable to spot and hammer down on this.
The reason that zkSync and Starknet are targeted is that neither have run an "airdrop" or token distribution scheme, and both are rather well known projects in the scene. It's a bit pity for them.
Lack of available staff, and a CEO who is probably mostly focused on finding some way to salvage advertising and has no time to spare on thinking about anything else because the advertising situation is just abysmally dire…
I mean I think fully a quarter of the community notes I see directly on things in my timeline (not people sharing screenshots of particularly funny/interesting community notes) are people putting community notes on overpriced drop shipping scammers.
The advertising situation seems completely doomed and when the CEO was picked to remedy that and the owner is in a nebulous executive role as “product owner” and simultaneously a hyper emotionally invested product user (based on credible reports and the publicly verifiable behaviour)… what can she really do besides do a good enough job for long enough that it won’t seem weird when she quits/takes another position.
Some of these are even able to fake the target URL - the Tweet Card shows them going to "starknet [.] io", but hover over the link and it will actually point to "reward - zksync [.] club". I wonder what the fuck is going on at Twitter that they're unable to spot and hammer down on this.