I’ve continued thinking about this all day. I think that the economics of zaps is what could make #nostr different from anything g else built before. ActivityPub started with leaning into aspects of decentralized authority. Nostr and Zaps take this to a new level. On other traditional platforms, the incentive for monetization is not from the user, but from the platform. The more people scroll, the more the platform has chances to capture advertisers revenue. But with nostr we could build an ecosystem that’s not driven by ad revenue. We could encourage an ecosystem that’s driven through value. What would it look like if you could filter feeds to show what has been zapped the most? What if you could filter by what has been zapped recently? What if you could filter by what has the most unique number of zaps? What if you could filter by what has the highest average stats per zap? All of these views could tell a different story. But the point is that somebody has to invest into the story or into the post to signify that it has value to them. Imagine a world where you have an audience the size of some of these audiences on these other platforms, but it’s entirely powered by a value system of the participants. Even if the hosting platform took a small percentage just for maintenance costs, we could build a really compelling ecosystem. Use your zaps as your voice!