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You would rather have a post with no likes and a single user zapping 21 sats or a post with 0 zaps and 121 likes ?

I know I'll be in the minority saying this on nostr, especially with the recent campaigning for zaps and against likes, but i'd prefer the likes.

121 likes is a lot of viewers and acknowledgement that a post I made was in some way beneficial to others. That's more likes then I've ever gotten on a nostr post. And yes, comments and boosts are more engaging then likes, but likes are not zero effort either.

Zaps are always nice, but it's not always about v4v. There's more people out there without the ability to zap than there are that can.

In general, reaching more people is better.

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jb55 2y ago

I think most people would choose the likes

tanel 2y ago

Would love to have polls for questions like these 💜

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

The problem with polls right now is that there is no way to vote without zapping value.

damien 2y ago

Agreed, I think overtime it could be removed

vnprc 2y ago

I'd take the likes. 121 is a lot of likes. That note must have been a banger. 21 is not a lot of sats.

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

I hope so. And seeing it seems that way reading through more of the responses.

There is probably a threshold unique to each individual for where they prefer lower reach zaps over a greater number of likes. To me it's not 1 like for 1 sat. Maybe for someone it's 20 to 1. For example, theyd rather receive 19 likes then a zap of 1 sat, but at 20 likes and 0 sats they may start questioning the usefulness of what they posted. Mentally if we have some way to know how many times a post was viewed, then that factors into expectations to people's reactions whether it be an up/down vote, a boost, comment, or zap

This threshold is also likely influenced over time by the halvings, spending power of Bitcoin, and changing circumstances.

Need more clients to support down votes and other emoji reactions to posts. Both as a reaction and tallying