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Yesterday I came across a bunch of images about social mining and fan tokens, something like "attention is mining"... To be honest, my first reaction wasn't about how much can be mined, but rather: who is harvesting attention while also harvesting permissions.
Now, when I do airdrop interactions, I treat it like security checks: first look at the contract permissions, whether it can arbitrarily mint or blacklist, whether wallet authorization is unlimited; then check if the team addresses have signs of back-and-forth transfers or premeditated ambushes.
But I also don't want to completely avoid action just to "prevent anti-reaping," anyway I open a separate small wallet for each chain, control the limits, keep interaction frequency low, better to miss out than to risk my life.
The few minutes of FOMO are the most dangerous, so I first close the page and take a sip of water… then decide whether to click or not.