I’m not trying to get into a Damus vs primal debate. My point is more that most won’t pay for a subscription to a client or a relay or an image hosting service. And then devs chase after grants because they need money to develop their apps/services. Then on the other hand you have some that are willing to pay for those apps and services. Seems like a minority. People go crazy when they hear onlyzaps 😂
Seems like we’re between a rock and hard place if we want to attract a bigger user base
It would work better if more companies incorporated zapvertising into their business model. They could even build services to help them optimize their strategy and sell packages to brands that are willing to pay users for attention. No one has really solved this yet.
You’re right. That would solve a lot of the problem. Instead of having legacy ads, it would be ads about services available on nostr. And the user gets paid
It doesn’t need to be Primal vs Damus, and yet that’s what the purists (as I like to call them) and even the Damus dev himself like to push like a bunch of crybabies. They need to grow up.
As for the main point of this discussion, people have a few choices:
1) pay for what you need
2) manually piece together the features you want using multiple apps
3) wait until an ad-supported client comes along and turns the user and their data into the product just like every other social media out there.
I like Daniel’s zapvertising idea as well. I feel like most won’t do 1 or 2. Most users from legacy socials that were trying to attract I mean. Either we get something like zapvertising or legacy ads like you said
*we're trying to attract
Had to head out earlier with family so just getting back through my notifications slowly 😂 I really don’t want to see “traditional” ads show up in clients but I also feel like it’s probably inevitable at some point if the user base gets large enough.
I think so too. Either something like zapvertising becomes really popular and attracts the masses, or we’re stuck with legacy ads
