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I hope someday reposts and zaps completely replace the need for “likes”/🤙🏼.

Reposts and zaps are true value exchange…and have a real cost: your reputation or money.

Likes are superficial and exist only to inform an algorithm.

Relevance algorithms have their place, but they are best informed by a truly costly action.
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Derek Ross 2y ago 💬 1

I agree. This is also along the lines of what @monlovesmango used to say with Likes and why they didn't want to implement them on Astral.ninja.

Maybe we try it for the rest of the week and see how it goes? #OnlyZaps

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Joshua Vandercar 2y ago

I lean toward disagreeing with this. I think there is still a place for the 'like' – it is distinctive in its own right (wrong as it may often seem and do). In my mind, our actions in this digital social sphere map as thus…

'reply' furthers discourse/dialogue (cost: time)

'repost' communicates agreement/solidarity (cost: reputation)

'like' signals approval/consent (cost: none)

'zap' identifies/recognizes value (cost: money)

Our correspondence, kinship, and connection (whether IRL or not), need not always cost. We ought leave some space for the informality.