Who decides what is meaningless for me? š
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Addictions are harder to break for some than for others.
Crack is meaningful to the addict. It doesnāt mean itās healthy or that they have a healthy perspective on the reason they find it meaningful.
When you sit by a river you hear the water moving over rocks. I hear stories. The water has meaning to me that you may not understand.
This discussion doesnāt exist in a vacuum, as if itās merely theoretical. āLikesā and their affect on people and their behavior online are well studied. This is not some crazy idea I came up with on my own. š
I think the problem is more pronounced when someone is posting/writing notes in the hopes of likes, or as their goal. When they tailor their writing, or only write in a way that they believe will provide them with likes, they become dependent on that āhitā. If one writes for themselves and they write to provide value to their community (laughter, thought provoking, education) then it doesnāt matter.
Personal motivation is a huge part of it. It is the norm on social media to ādo it for the likesā and their systems are built to reward that behavior. Thinking it doesnāt carry over into how people behave on Nostr is foolish.
Iām sure it does and Iām sure people will continue to care about how many followers they have and will attempt to leverage their followers to make money. Incentive structures matter and help to dictate behaviour. There is no doubt about that.
For many, another mental hurdle to hop over, is that sats are more than a store of wealth. Some may be so committed to holding that they are unwilling to zap content š¤·āāļø
Some may be completely unwilling to zap, but I think that changes over time as they see them in action. But yea I agree itās a hurdle for some. The problem is where weāve all come from. Nostr is unlike any social network any of us have used. When it comes to content (Iām differentiating ācontentā from casual social interaction like this discussion), there is always a price. We pay for content with our time, our attention, and/or our money, whether or not we realize it. Traditional/legacy social media monetizes our time and attention, and in some cases allows for direct payments to creators (super follows on Twitter, for example). If we are unwilling to pay for content in a way that is meaningful for the content creators, then they will either go elsewhere or we will find that our time and attention on Nostr become more monetized in the way of ads.
šÆagree.