these are interesting points. most reward point systems are just issued without any cost. zaps have a real cost (even if small). any “welcome zaps” would have to be given by someone. onboarding client or other users? the more automated the more game-able/drainable.
maybe a welcome channel/relay that shows new accounts who haven’t yet received a zap? and if/when it clicks for people who receive zaps ask them to pay-it-forward to send what they received
yeah, there's already an #introduction hashtag that is used by people to find new people and welcome them; I think the idea of making this into a gamified part of an onboarding app where you give new people examples of other "successful" (however you define this) introductions done by others, would be very interesting to explore
I really like the idea of an app that surfaces new users for anyone to zap. Maybe with a leaderboard that show who zapped/how much so that the daily top greeters can be acknowledged
Sidenote: the issue with hashtag-introduction is that that's a concept heavily used on mastodon and so if you greet those folks, they won't see it (unless we somehow publish Nostr events into activitypub?)
