I love the idea of Nostr as a twitter alternative, but content discovery is so challengingā¦ at least via Damus. Also, Twitter still has critical mass by a large margin of active experts in interesting subjectsā¦ e.g. AI, Medicine, Economics (non-crypto focused) ā¹ļø
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Sure. Twitter has all the āexpertsā at the moment.
17 years development versus 2. Permissionless payments (zaps) leapfrogs everything that came before.
Permissionless and Unregulated
Only if youāre obsessed with money.
I think the permissionless payments is more about enabling the communication of value signals in a way that canāt be stopped than the obsession with or accumulation of money. Itās a big deal. Maybe I misunderstand what you were saying though?
You donāt need money to do that.
How else do I tell really tell someone their work educated me, or tell a relay I value their sibling of electricity into relaying?
You could just tell them with words.
I hear ya. That works to a certain degree. Maybe think of it as two different kinds of signals.
Words, which are a lower value signal because of engagement farms, bots, especially ChatGPTā¦ Imagine GPT-10ā¦
And sats, which are a higher value signal because you canāt fake a sat.
Also, relay operators canāt pay for their electricity using my words of affirmation.
How much do you think it costs to run a relay?
Like, do you think itās closer to $5 or $50?
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Lol. I think it's just neat to send sats directly to random people a la stacker.news. I guess I'm obsessed with money.
Check out nos.today experimental nostr search engine
Rome wasnāt built in a day, neither was Twitter, neither will NOSTR. All in good time
Give it time. We still so early. Back-end is being built out faster than the front-end can keep up with.