Discussion
literally 😂
Just remove the like button with a future Nostr Update. At least 1 Sat is affordable for everyone.
Artists want to be free. I get it.
But you don’t go to every movie or buy every piece of art or music, etc. Why should you pay for EVERYTHING they do?
You don’t. You pay for what you find meaningful/valuable to you. If it’s meaningful enough to “like” it, then it’s meaningful to zap it. Otherwise you don’t really value what they made in the first place.
Not really. There are nuances.
When something makes you smile, you like it; when something makes you laugh out loud, you zap. 😁
What would you know about zapping people except that you never do it? 😂
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I did but True
Then your opinion on the matter is as irrelevant to me as a nocoiner’s opinion on bitcoin.
Anyone that disagrees with you is automatically disregarded? Thank god you can’t ban me …. Yet 😂
It’s not that you disagree, but that you don’t even engage in the V4V economy so you can’t have an informed opinion on it. You add no value to the conversation.
You smoked this buddy for breakfast. Great conversation 😁
But he can, who are you to say?
Your posts are so condescending, it’s ridiculous. Each individual decides what’s valuable—that’s what the #Nostr protocol is about: putting the users in charge.
So essentially, your ‘informed’ opinion is irrelevant.
I agree, its more nuanced than “participation = pay”
I only normally zap things that make me think, move me, get my curiosity itch scratched.
But i hold those things to a higher standard maybe than a quick laugh or chuckle. Funny is great, but doesn’t meet my zap mental threshold i guess 🤷♂️
Almost liked tiered levels of participation in a post?
You press “like” because it makes you feel like you did something meaningful when in reality you didn’t. It’s worthless. Zap or don’t zap. Comment or don’t comment. Repost or don’t repost. Likes are just not meaningful and are simply a tool of legacy social media to inform algorithms.
Did you even read what I wrote? I understand you have your opinion on what likes used to be, but I just told you why I use them now. Me telling somebody with a quick button click that something they created made me smile or smirk and I see you, maybe thats worthless to you because you want money for everything you post i guess? But to me and probably a lot of people thats not worthless. I repost and I comment and zap things also, not just likes. Something may be pointless to you, or you only view it in its old outdated form, but it still has value if you can separate it from your hatred of who created it. Comments are difficult for me in general (i’ve always been a lurker, i don’t ever text even or text people back haha) but i still like to do them if something moves me to.
Likes are a more subtle way to participate. You don’t seem like a very shy or reserved person 😂😅 so maybe thats part of why its difficult for you to see other perspectives on the matter 🤷♂️
Do you understand at all what I was saying in my original post with the meme? Please look again.
Well maybe I don’t understand the post then, are you saying that what we currently have and are building is unsustainable to grow nostr? And the like button is part of the cause of Nostr not being able to win out in the end? Isn’t this the space to be free of centralized platforms? Or you mean that the clients here are too centralized?
Because otherwise, you already have that now here at Nostr and you are super early with a great position to take advantage of millions coming over and still zapping. All i was doing was trying to explain why people do what they do in the second frame and use likes
Preach it Corn! ⚡
Haha thats a lot. I have definitely upped my zapping game recently, for exactly this reason. And i committed myself to buying Damus Purple, almost solely for the fact of supporting Will and everything about the dev side (which i’m not myself and not technical, but i appreciate those who do) because its time to put the money where the tome is spent.
I am on #Nostr more and more, I love it. And until recently, i don’t put my money into anything because i’m not sure what will work out and what won’t, or who/who will be around a year or two from now. The only big investment in the space I made was nostr:npub1ve8qwrlztemdmnh62jffcr0y9m9dpqgqjdg8ufx7gc3qw5wdk74qyv9ka6 and that was difficult for me to get myself to do haha but I knew I had to branch out a little bit. But after listening to some devs talking about their projects recently, i’ve shifted my mindset. I will mow use my money to support the PEOPLE AND PROJECTS that I like and I will be ok if that money ends up getting wasted or I buy some product that will be insignificant in 3 months (especially with how Nostr just rips through progress and challenges like it does haha) because now the main reason I participate won’t be for the product and what I can get out of it, its for the PARTICIPATION ITSELF.
I also find it funny/ironic that i’m writing this from nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 haha and not Damus or Primal, which are the two clients that brought me to this new mindset shift. It just happens that I went into Nostur to look and see if there was anything new and clear notifications, and just happened to see this post.
But thats part of what I love and the amazing interoperability of everything
Add doggie coin tips then retard, stop expecting people to use your grifter "lightning" shit
Yeah..
I replaced the like button. Except I have started to use it if the person can't be zapped.
As good a idea it is, I think it would severely stunt the growth of nostr and inherently the reach for artists… unless all clients are are going to become a wallet like primal, just from scanning the introductions tag and greeting new users, at least 90% don’t set up wallets or at least not right away and only the btc community that comes over to Nostr seems to be in a hurry to set one up at all. I like the idea rather of opting for “zaps only” in settings
Likes don’t help give someone reach
True and the likes are not meant for the artists, I’m saying for the new users that don’t understand btc and don’t have the ambition yet to find out… the legacy users just switching over to Nostr is what I am talking about… it gives them a feeling of validation to receive likes which in turn motivates them to use the protocol, maybe have it so users can turn off the ability to receive likes and only receive zaps. If more and more of us did this and new users saw new artists that they like and want to support only allowing recognition in zap form, it may increase the likelihood hood that fans would adopt btc and zap them… it’s just a thought… the bigger problem is that humanity is lazy and unless they have motivation to learn or setup a wallet, most are too lazy to input more than a button click to begin with…