Sorry, but your #Zapathon ritual is pathetic.

It reminds me a bit of the carneval of the Germans where otherwise miserable, bad-tempered people become funny and cheerful at the push of a button (or the arrival at a certain defined time period). It's a little forced and disingenuous.

People should be zapping more debate contributions that they see. And since we're all freedom-loving, somehow more conscious participants of this alternative network, we should honor and reward contributions, that don't necessarily affirm our viewpoint (cuz that's what the Tweeps over there do), but provide a valid argument and broaden our perspectives, right?

But wait, there are no widespread debates going on here! I see a lot of cult-like mantras, which are repeated until they are vomited up, hedonism and some dev stuff. Whereby the latter still represents the highest content level. This platform also needs some technical upgrading, only the fewest clients even have the possibility of quote resharing. And while we're at it, why not reintroduce a pingback feature that worked so well for weblogs? Hashtags are not really suited to keep track of a public discussion..

I really hope that these are the usual teething problems of a new platform, like the first awkward phases of Facebook (anybody remember the poke feature?) and that this currently dominating mindless conversation culture will soon be forgotten.

For #nostr to become a really serious alternative to what is currently being built up with millions of capital and a lot of brainwork, it must clear this hurdle and there must be other notes in the trends than those of the most zapped flesh merchants and a few smug sayings like "people aren't yet ready for nostr. and that's ok".

Because people are ready. Nostr and its prevailing discussion culture is not.