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If it got popular, people could promote their friends, get paid to promote certain things, promote certain ideologies, etc.

Exodia38 1y ago

But we live in an adversarial world. Isn't that expected? Wouldn't it be worse if they didn't have the freedom to do that?

I've been thinking about the possibilities of value4value recently. I now think this: If the momentum of value4value is concentrated in just a few hands, that could activate something called the law of comparative advantage, sometimes called the ricardian law of association and that would boost the underdogs on the nostr scene.

I think the idea you've proposed can be great because that could trigger a big source of revenue that would trickle down and make a chain of reaction through all Nostr. After all, we could say there are people that provide us more value than others here

I think all of this could succeed (if made organically tho)

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Chris Liss 1y ago

yeah, they should have the freedom, just acknowledging that it too is subject to capture and eventually failure, though competition from uncaptured curators and reputational damage could mitigate it.

And yes the idea would be to have people who follow everyone who posts more than say x times per week so that the number is about 10K. And call the account Master Curator or something. It would be real work though, so you’d have to get funding to vet and pay a bunch of people and maybe cut them in on the zaps to the account. But it would (IMO) accelerate engagement/adoption on nostr via incentives. ANY npub with sufficient volume would qualify to be followed (unless dismissed for spam/low-quality content), and be in the running to be re-posted by the Curator.

Even better if the UI for the curator were built so that it hid the identities of the npubs, so there would be no advantage whatsoever to having more followers or a high profile. The Curator just looks at posts preselected from accounts who contribute content to the platform at a certain rate and boosts the ones it deems worthwhile.

Exodia38 1y ago

I like it. All of this seems achievable. The only thing would be to ensure that curation masters are competing between them, but that sounds feasible with inelastic zaps