Nostr Web Client

Gm ☕️🤙 I continue to see comments suggesting that having the option to turn off “likes” is equivalent to demanding #zaps and making #Nostr “all about money.” Do some of you truly think that? Honest question.

Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

I understand the argument and you certainly will keep anti-capitalists away with #onlyZaps.

In nostr, likes and zaps are gigantic +500B messages to add 4B of data (utf8 or amount) to a message. That's why many were against likes even before zaps were a thing. And then there is those who find a like too cheap to even show. Vanity stinks.

Zaps at least carry value, so it's less cheap to zap than to like but if you have no money to spare, zap one sat. It's as good as free. But anti-caps won't do that ever.

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corndalorian 2y ago

I think that is the fair side of the debate. What, if anything, is the value/purpose of likes. But accusing people of being greedy or all about money for disabling them is a false assumption and I’ve seen some people making that assumption.

Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

For anti-caps, mentioning money's utility for anything at all is "wrong" and "you reduce all to its monetary value".

I think anti-caps are not necessarily what client devs should cater to but with onlyZaps you repel not only the anti-caps but also the shitcoiners that favor their respective flavor of shitcoinery at least if it doesn't support lightning. And of course you repel all those who think that both Bitcoin and crypto are a huge ponzi.

I get it, nostr was born out of Bitcoin so to say but it was always a big priority to not push Bitcoin into nostr users' faces on a protocol level.