The other platforms are all about monetization now. There are no genuine conversations because being yourself is not allowed. Everyone just projects this fake image of themselves, always perfect and always happy. We know that’s not how humans are.
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Being yourself is not rewarded, and for the most part, that is what people sick online nowadays.
But let’s make no mistake, thats our nature in the sense that if certain kinds of posts attracts more zaps, it will be a matter of time until others start mimicking.
Luckily #nostr doesn’t come with recommendation algo built it, and even if it eventually implements boosting to support users discoverability, it hopefully will not be built upon these economic metrics.
I don’t think you can use zaps to determine ranking - it’ll just be gamed.
But yeah certain types of post may get mimicked. Hard to say if they’ll do well long term though as people may notice the trend and disregard. It’s easy to hit like but zaps are proof of work.
Precisely. Just don’t be discouraged if many people tries to gamefy nostr and succeed, because that will most likely happen.
What I think it’s different is that here that shouldn’t have a negative impact on others and specially on the communities and conversations such as this.
That's so true well said 👏👏
And what won’t they do for 500K ‘likes’?? Are ready to do anything to save their stupidity, hypocrisy, laziness, falsehood, cowardice, aberration, that it has become a 'function' to fulfill... Hum!
I like reddit because the focus is more on content than on personalities. It's normal to read a post and an entire series of comments and not even look at the names of the people posting.
Interesting, I have had my share of funny moments reading reddit but never felt compelled to post, either because I felt my opinions wouldn’t add to the conversation, but mostly because I compared it more with slashdot than twitter.
Here I’m much less intimidated about exchanging with others, people are genuine, collaborative and respectful.
As to your point of “content vs personalities”, I agree, but I also find this to be true here. I never interacted with cats, frogs, and whatnot before joining #nostr :)
The sense of community we have here is great but not something we can expect to last if someday nostr reached mass adoption. Ultimately though, in a client like Amethyst that I'm using now, something shows up on my feed because someone I follow posted it. In contrast to reddit where it matches a given topic/community I follow and has gained recent upvotes. It would probably be not too hard to have a nostr client that creates a similar experience.