Unpopular opinion maybe, but before late Feb/early March, there were no zaps on Nostr & it was still a warm & welcoming place.
Zaps seem like fun, but from experience Nostr is quite good even otherwise - for a social app, it all comes down to the people right?
Zaps aren't going anywhere
I know, what if Will is forced to completely remove zaps from Damus?
Also from observing trends of when zaps increased on nostr.band, feels like 50-60% of zaps are from Damus (and I feel people are very passionate about Damus to make a complete switch to other clients, which is understandable).
Just putting my experience a across as a daily Nostr user who hasn't zapped/been zapped
That's probably because the onlyzaps fan club is all Damus users, so RIP that movement 😂
Plenty of other zapping options exist though, and those who want zaps will move to where they can zap.
Apple isn't going to back down on this. But we have so many ways to not use the Appstore.
Zaps are the only real feedback. Likes are costless, likes are a shitcoin
Feedback depends on the recipient. If I choose to value likes on my post, it has value. Period.
Thinking something has value doesn't make it have value. Likes are not saleable. And someone can create infinite Npubs and spam likes endlessly to create fake feedback if you value that. No one can create endless sats
I don't subscribe to your definition of value then 🤷
I understand the point about spamming with likes but that doesn't devalue likes for me.
It's not about the # of likes, it about the people liking it.
There are spam bots flooding replies too, does that mean you don't engage with others replying to your post?
I don't need you to subscribe. My version of value is objective not subjective. Anyone can go anywhere in the world and liquidate bitcoin for goods, services or local currencies. It's globally accepted value, not "my definition". The same cannot be said for likes.
Value is inherently subjective.
Cost isn't, price isn't but value is. Bitcoin is only a unit of value, like likes.
There are people in the world who are unaware of Bitcoin - what value does it have to them?
