Likes reward attention seeking behavior. Sats reward content people value. There is a difference. #onlyzaps
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Why can I still see the 🤙 is onlyzaps is enabled?
Lol, isn’t it the same things ? “Will gain attention for zaps” Just that the reward scheme is diff
Then why are people more willing to part with likes than sats?
In an algo based environment, “like” was used as reward scheme to boost post hence more likes, more visibilities. Also easier to duplicate with bots. And this let people wanting more likes and it stuck.
Then again there are also people like me who are indifferent and like a post just because, or to bookmark it.
But to say zaps doesn’t reward attention seeking behaviour is wrong - why wouldn’t people be selling out on contents if it rewards them monetarily ? Why not ?
They will but when there is financial incentive it changes the thought behind the content. It becomes how do I provide value rather than how do I spark engagement.
Just a matter of time before someone trains an AI chatbot to crank out notes for zaps. Train it on a large corpus of notes, figure out what gets zaps and what does not, take it from there.
If it provides content people value enough to zap, Im all for it.
what is defined as “value” is subjective to viewers. Having a metric counter is gonna want people doing anything to get more attention, more zaps, more financial incentive.
The positive is that this helps cater to wide scope of content-based gig economy - influencers, writers, musicians, photography, artists etc.
Unfortunately the attention seeking psychology impact won’t be resolved by zap as it’s a form of reward scheme. The good thing is that there is no algo-based system that enables businesses to abuse this impact and thrive on it.
But we should always revisit this topic and have debates like this because it’s going to provide a check and balance to see how this influences society esp younger generation.
“Value is subjective to viewers”. Yes! As I said, “Sats reward content people value.”
You stated that you like posts “just because”. I would say you are not as likely to do that with zaps because you are considering what the content is worth to you.
Will zaps get rid of all attention seeking behavior? No. But I believe it will get rid of a lot of the negative content meant to simply illicit a response/like for attention as that is less likely to receive zaps.
Zaps get the audience to consider what they value in a fiat world where likes are free and worthless.
Because parting with sats is a cost. That doesn’t mean the sats they do part with won’t reward attention-seeking behavior.
It also forces people to think about what they're responding to. A like to me is similar to a polite smile in person. Nothing wrong with it. It just isn't as strong as giving feedback.
Also, not everything has to be zapped if you enjoy it. Some notes exist for the benefit of the creator and are not meant to get attention.
I doubt attention seekers are looking for likes, lol. Attention seekers seek attention, whatever form that is.
You must not have any teens on social media.
Likes are attention without value.
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Yeah, but isn't that dehumanizing when you frame it that way? I feel it is kind of the wrong way to view these things if we're talking about a person's psychological needs.
Also if only Zaps are promoted, that is like saying that you must buy a person's attention or gain attention through monetary means. That is a bit odd to me.
Are meaningless likes from bots on platforms “humanizing?”
Please expand on how likes on social media platforms are good for a person’s psychological needs.
Do you pay someone money every time they say something you like or agree with, or do you just let them know in some other way like... telling them so?
Also, are you a bot?
I see them as a sliding scale of reward.
They all incentivise behaviour.
They all have relative value, but a zap has no upper limit.
But I believe a reward with worthless value has negative impacts on human behavior imo. Particularly young teens and preteens are vulnerable to the dopamine hit of a like.
Every interaction online can involve a dopamine hit, depending on the receivers need for external validation. A zap provides a much larger dopamine hit than a like because a scarce resource is being issued.
I don't see a like online as much different to an encouraging word or a thank you IRL. The big difference is the scale & the cost involved.
I think the existence of zaps depreciates the dopamine hit from a like.
Likes are nice, but have you ever been zapped?
This is the truth. #bitcoin #zaps #valueforvalue
