Nostr Web Client

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.

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.

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.