I like when the reality of the protocol forces us to think about better ways to represent things like follow counts. Trying to copy centralized concepts is not going to work on a decentralized network. Luckily realizations like this will push us in a much better direction: measuring meaningful connections between individuals and displaying that instead. nostr:note145xkt4qhgphmvj6ls9llw70zz0llfkg5ypek6w9myadk467nx8ysu5r6jz
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I guess we need Saylor’s Orange Check after all…
you ever thought abt removing like & follower counts? nostr:note1ve03fs7dh6lp2w5g8w6qz9w56em3nrf7xpm6h70q9ht5jgv3806s9sdx29
We don’t show follow counts and have an option to disable likes
I think we need to move on from follow counts to something better
Google+ had circles
Facebook, Orkut and Myspace had friend lists
LinkedIn has connections
They all emphasized on displaying only relationships that were two-way. That is better and makes contact lists less of a popularity contest.
People sure are giving that dude alot of attention for being a douchey attention seeking scammer.
I’d rather have 1 good friend and 100 people on Nostr that push me to be a better version of me then 1,000 to a million bots that are NPCs.
Jb55, Define a follower by amount of money ( zap) will weed out the bot accounts. To prevent fake and manipulation by zapping around and passing around zaps: I propose we do this: 1) only count followers on highly respected and trusted Nostr clients( by Nostr community) ,
2) each zap amount to from account A to B to establish a following must be higher than 5000 sats ( example amount) and the Nostr client charges a zap fee ( to be a follower ) each time to prevent fake zapping chain and circle ( say 5% or fixed amount) and 3) optional ( maybe not necessary), the followed person should have a verified website linked to npub. This will help establish true trust. Nostr can do this to compete with X, YouTube, etc.
Zaps are a meaningful action, I feel they connect us even more so than followers. The follower account game is an old and outdated one, imo.