I agree with you. I use $5-$10 and just reload a wallet to spend on Nostr for a period of a month. It gives me some play money and the rest goes into stacking.
We can do both. Zapping Sats aren’t always a loss. I’d rather give sats then a penny.
I’m 2017 there was almost 0 real use case for normies. It was all about hodl.
I get that but that was the first step. This is phase two. We just have to be careful not to spend to many sats on zaps.
It has to become more than play money amounts though for things to be sustainable here. Not saying go out and zap every post you see with a dollar’s worth of sats, but tipping someone a penny doesn’t really incentivize them to do much else for you, and eventually people are serious about creating and building in a sustainable and profitable way WILL turn to other forms of monetization. Zaps won’t provide a full time income to anyone, but if all they provide is a couple pennies here and there then they’re really only for play and fun and Nostr isn’t for actual commerce.
Most of what is on Nostr is only for play and fun rn. I pay for notes that are fun and/or make me think. Most people won’t pay more than that for basic thoughts or memes.
Real content like videos, movies, music, etc have already displayed they can make thousands of dollars.
Nostr needs more users and it needs more real content other than Bitcoin stuff. It’s doing well for it’s short lifespan though.
Slippery slope.
Charge a fee to cover costs. Make the service so good that’s it’s worth the SATS fee.
Expecting zaps to cover isn’t sustainable.
Also never forget about the lowest common denominator. People will and are taking advantage of the “free SATS” model; i.e. taking & not giving.
Correct. There’s literally thousands of bots that posted on Nostr this morning “Hello World #introduction”.
Many new accounts get zapped because we are nice and want to educate folks, but sats are lost to that shit.
I see these tests as positive because it pushes open source software to become better in self sufficient ways. Newbies become collateral damage for basic scams though.
