So aren’t Nostr and Bluesky repeating the same mistake by including likes into the product?
Discussion
You can use a Nostr client that hides reactions. For example, I have a PR open for Damus to add a setting to hide reactions. Only zaps.
Clients don’t have to implement in nostr. I hope some don’t.
To me the most important are note, re-note, reply, and zap.
I think the likes are empty…but people are used to them I guess.
stop trying to make re-note a thing
never
How about denote?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Official definition = https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/denote
“to make known : ANNOUNCE”
De is a play on words for de-centralized. The more people denote your note, the more decentralized it becomes.
Meant this as a name for quotes, since quotes have no ‘note’ theme. Clearly naming things is not my speciality. 😆
agree that likes are no no. Zaps all the way
#ValueForBehavior
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May I know why you dislike ‘likes’ ? It is because of it created a psychology of needing to be liked or that or it was used for algo purposes to increase visibility? Or that it reduces other interactive engagement such as comments and zaps? I may not want to opine on every note and zapping takes 3-4 steps, hence ‘likes’ seems like the easiest way to say I liked what the user posted and no other reasons to it (well sometimes to bookmark it too). I don’t have strong affinity towards ‘likes’ and neither do I hate it, but I am hoping to understand this better
What do you think about an implicit form of like, where clients report when you’ve read a note rather than scrolled past?
Also: it used to be a star on Twitter originally, which I used to mark memorable tweets (I still use "Like" that way on Twitter today)