Start a community and charge for replies 😆 .
That said, paid replies probably contain more information than zaps of similar amounts (especially if only members can reply).
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Micropayments are great for machines, but lousy for humans. Humans love membership. I think there is a possibility to combine membership (paid-up npub) with the ability to disburse micropayments along the way.
I was doing read-aloud-by-request on Twitter, for fun, and some guys were like, is there an OnlyFans where we can get private read-alouds?
They were serious. 😅
Like, you'd pay me to sit in front of a camera and read aloud from classical literature?
Yes, apparently. Especially if I wear my tweed retro dress and my nerdy glasses.
Zaps often seem so random. And there are a few mega-zappers that completely skew the statistics. And someone who leaves and comes back, after a long hiatus, gets rained with zaps. Has nothing to do with the content of the note they posted.
I'm here so much, that people think of me as part of the infrastructure, so they take it for granted that I'd remain. I'm now the wife, not the new girlfriend, so nobody is flashing cash, anymore, cuz they figure I'm a permanent fixture. I'm like Nostr background noise, but I don't actually have a Nostr income, so I'll be going a bit radio-silent, soon, when I get my new job.