I think we are so used to not owning our own posts on social media that we feel entitled to like notes. But since you own your notes on nostr, you should be able to choose how people are able to react to it. Notes are your property. On twitter you can like posts because Twitter says you can. On nostr you can like notes only if the user says you can.
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But we don’t own our notes? What does that even mean. We sign them, so they can’t be changed but then they get sent out for relays, other people, etc to do whatever they want with them. Once you put it out there, all people can do is verify you actually said it, but that’s it.
Isn’t your argument the same thing as asking someone not to say something to offend you? You’re trying to control other people here. In fact people aren’t “liking your note” instead a “like” event is broadcasted that says a person liked a particular note id, so their “like” is entirely separate from your “note”, it just refers to it
I’m not trying to control anyone. Part of the reason I’m not doing only zaps is that I don’t want to force people to pay me sats if all they want to do is acknowledge they agree with me or like my post. But that’s my belief, and I still think people should have control over how their own posts are interacted with.
If someone says something that offends me, I mute them, simple.
My understanding of ownership in this context is that you own all your data/events here, no one else owns it, that’s why you’re able to move from one client to another since all your data/events are just tied to your key pair. Since you own your data you should be able to say how others interact with it, which only zaps allows for.
I was with you until here “Since you own your data you should be able to say how others interact with it, which only zaps allows for. “
I disagree - you can control how you see their interactions with your notes, but you can’t control their interactions.
And it’s not really “owning” in the traditional sense. They have copies of it just like you do, it’s just proved that it came from you.
And if you don’t back up your posts, and relays don’t save them, you won’t take them anywhere because they don’t exist anymore.
Yeah, these are fair points. I suppose an argument can be made that if an interaction is an event, and, with my understanding of ownership, you own all your events, then not allowing likes is limiting someone’s ability to write an event. I guess if we don’t like it we can just go to a different client that doesn’t support onlyzaps.
All I know is that I’m keeping onlyzaps turned off on Damus.
Yeah I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet… at this point I’d like to support whatever helps Nostr grow the most