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My question is, is that the percent of users willing to zap? Or is that the percent of users who have Bitcoin and are willing to zap? It only scales if more people with Bitcoin become willing to spend it. Doesn’t matter how many users there are or how much content they publish if you only have a few hundred people who both have sats AND are willing to spend them.
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Laeserin 1y ago

This is normal. Zaps are essentially just another form of voluntary interaction, such as likes or boosts or replies, so they would tend to come from the same minority (sub 10%) that performs all other interactions.

It's a question of active/passive involvement.

This is not the problem. The problem is that the 5% is too small of an absolute number, to add up to significant income over zaps. If we had 1 million daily users, 5% would be 50k zappers. With 2 million, it'd be 100k.

So, the goal should be to expand the number of users in toto, perhaps by promoting more diversity of content, raising software quality, and developing apps that have wider appeal than just-another-microblogging client.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Just realized that the people in the thread probably won't read or respond to this, so I'm sharing it with you, instead, dear followers. 🥰

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IntuitiveGuy☯️ 1y ago

#YESTR

We are still a minority, but I like to think we are and will be loud enough to gradually and organically scale as (as you well said) UX and software improves, and because of that number of users will increase.

In the end as more content creators get in #nostr, and stop to use different platforms, their followers, will follow.. so the need should be to focus make it appeal not to masses first maybe, but to expose to creators (music/art/podcasting/news/blogs/services) thy nostr is just the best option.

Also like nostr:nprofile1qqsx2wyjt6lmvc05rrvv05r5hm3w3t7h0pcpmkyswrpd4ymd2u09tscpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu339e682mnwv4k8xct5wvhxxmmdqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wscn3xgh did, kudos to them and their approach.

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Laeserin 1y ago

The angle we're trying is to simply shift massive amounts of content from the wider Internet onto Nostr, so that Nostr becomes the place people can go to, find that information. Scrape all of the books, research papers, articles, etc. that can be found published on the web.

Nostr allows for more complex navigation and curation of large data sets and allows for accurately gouging data quality, while keeping running costs extremely low, so it's an unusually good "eventually consistent storage", which is what you need for that sort of wide-rather-than-deep storage.

Then people can Ask Nostr instead of Asking Google or Asking ChatGPT.

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IntuitiveGuy☯️ 1y ago

#YESTR !

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purrs_for_Her 1y ago

is this like a real web3.0???

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Laeserin 1y ago

It's whatever we make it, sir.

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Dawn 1y ago

That's kind of what I'm thinking too, but they do differ in that they have more constraints than typical interactions, logistically and psychologically (such as what corn was pointing out), so percentage will likely always be lower than other interactions. I'm curious by how much. Is half(ish) indicative to the larger future counts too?

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Laeserin 1y ago

Yeah, has to be lower since Bitcoin has scarcity that other interactions don't have, so 5%, instead of 10%. Figure half is sort of realistic.

Also, zaps can be adjusted up and down in size, so number of zaps ≠ amount of total zaps.

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Dawn 1y ago

Yeah, it seems realistic... when we start talking about total sats, I think that's where factors like quality, sincerity, reputation, etc really come into play for the zapee, as well as conviction, humility, financial constraint, etc for the zapper.

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Dr. M 1y ago

Was there ever an attempt to organize a month where each of us onboards as much new members as possible? Even if we onboard one per current Nostr user, multiplied by a million... Someone influential on Nostr should start an initiative like this. Just my 2 cents