I see some layers to it in my view:
- nostr's lightning bias pushing away users of other cryptocurrencies while the wider Bitcoin bias pushes away dollarbrains, concentrating a certain group of people here
- feeds that boost zapped content
- people who give follows, likes, replies, and reposts to high zap amount npubs, hoping for zaps
- villains who use zaps to promote their own unfair bias willingly
- paid relays and other spam suppression methods that unfairly benefit lightning users or those with more money in general
I mean. Bitcoin made cryptographic money possible first. It tracks to me that it would also make financially incentivized social media possible first. Seems more like a lack of say, xrp bros, who employ enough ambition to create such a space. But they could always copy the Bitcoin playbook and copy it's programs again 😆
The rest definitely happens or will. I don't pay for a thing tho and I get zero spam over here. I just block everything that doesn't seem legit. Haven't seen reply guy in ages for instance.
The people here should help promote those developments instead of competing against them.
According to fiatjaf, reply guy stopped on its own when whoever was doing it felt satisfied they had proven their point, it was never successfully stopped.
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