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I think zaps can give information about the relative quality of posts from one npub, but not between npubs.

But even then, there are weird, unexpected dynamics.

For instance, pictures of my person tend to receive more reactions and replies than pictures of my dinner, but the latter gets lots of zaps and the former gets none or only a couple very small ones from some people doing OnlyZaps.

Should I respond to the financial incentive and never post pictures of myself and post lots and lots of pictures of food? Probably not. There's some weird effect on display here, but I know not what.

The zaps, and lack of zaps, are providing information, but how to interpret it?

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Niel Liesmons 1y ago

Start a community and charge for replies 😆 .

That said, paid replies probably contain more information than zaps of similar amounts (especially if only members can reply).

Tim Bouma 1y ago

Micropayments are great for machines, but lousy for humans. Humans love membership. I think there is a possibility to combine membership (paid-up npub) with the ability to disburse micropayments along the way.

Laeserin 1y ago

I was doing read-aloud-by-request on Twitter, for fun, and some guys were like, is there an OnlyFans where we can get private read-alouds?

They were serious. 😅

Like, you'd pay me to sit in front of a camera and read aloud from classical literature?

Yes, apparently. Especially if I wear my tweed retro dress and my nerdy glasses.

Laeserin 1y ago

Zaps often seem so random. And there are a few mega-zappers that completely skew the statistics. And someone who leaves and comes back, after a long hiatus, gets rained with zaps. Has nothing to do with the content of the note they posted.

I'm here so much, that people think of me as part of the infrastructure, so they take it for granted that I'd remain. I'm now the wife, not the new girlfriend, so nobody is flashing cash, anymore, cuz they figure I'm a permanent fixture. I'm like Nostr background noise, but I don't actually have a Nostr income, so I'll be going a bit radio-silent, soon, when I get my new job.