Zaps are legit, don’t get me wrong.
But I’m seeing a lot of starry-eyed takes about what they’ll do for social media.
The same dangers remain. Divisive posts will get lots of zaps, from one side or the other.
Posters will be subtly influenced by the masses to maximize zaps per post, rather than speak their mind.
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I’m not sure, I think on legacy social media divisive posts get popular because of engagement, more the engagement more ad revenue for SM. On nostr why would you want to lose out on zaps from the other side? In fact I think people would be more ready to throw their sats at the person that makes sense, than the person that talks shit?
Or maybe I’m too optimistic 🤷♂️
Although I do agree that chasing zaps will influence you. I’m just not sure if it will influence you to be divisive
Legacy social media is definitely more toxic, because algorithms learned to show us divisiveness to maximize engagement. That will be absent on nostr, which is a tremendous improvement.
I guess all I’m really saying is we’ll see echo chambers of “highly zapped” content which is actually low signal. Sometimes divisiveness will be a part of that, but not always
I will only ever speak my mind. This place is a brain-dump for me. If people want to zap my thoughts, that's cool. But I don't care really.
👊🏽 my man
yes, though it’s true of any type of engagement
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I see this already happening a bit also here. But I can control what-who to see-follow-comment etc. and what not. It's the same like the "influencers" (lol) in other social..but nobody can "force me" to see their shitposting..
This is the big difference with nostr.
I think a main problem with social is authenticity. To be yourself. And I understand that sometimes it's difficult.
But it's the same in real life (i can count my friends in one hand)
So i share what I believe has "value" for me or I just like it. And continue to do so. If this appreciated or not from others it's not my problem 🤗
And I am ok with that.
* I also shitposting participated to zapathon 🫂
well said!
