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Am I the only one annoyed by using zaps for advertising purposes?

To me, the goal of a zap is to show my sincere appreciation to someone who took the time to write something informative, useful, entertaining, stimulating, etc.

Using zaps in this way is certainly legitimate, but it undermines their original purpose. Doesn't it?

Jurjen de Vries 1y ago

I tried it once long ago when I created my first Nostr pinboard. But I agree with you, organically would be better. Due of that I just discovered Firefish which I am looking into now. Maybe I can have a referral code?

Keeping the Nostr Ethos would maybe that hard as keeping the WWW ethos of Tim Berners-Lee https://om.co/2012/09/10/tim-berners-lee-remember-the-ethos-of-the-web/ . I am from that early days, and now its mostly big-tech that is visible to the mainstream. Developing apps such as FireFish and nostr:npub13ue6qxwf23vjkw6lu6pkykx06q6tkvmwcgm2f7jtnkwjc42ahmyqwuxn33 as FOSS on the Nostr protocol and decentralized relays might help. It's still a hard and long way to go, but hopefully stacking BTC and the ethos might give some freedom to do this.

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mbarulli 1y ago

100%

(Sending you the Firefish referral code via DM, thanks!)