Sure, but just having the link in there really disrupts the flow in my opinion. Especially when the text in the note is referencing the image.

this is a good take 😝

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thinking content gating in some way? a new take on paywalls?

What sets zap amount of sats?

Is there a NIP for PoW-based likes?

To me, the like on Nostr is more of a nod to a passing stranger or a slight hand wave from the steering wheel to a driver being Courteous. It’s just a “hey that’s a good comment/thought/picture” but not worth a full conversation. I could careless about the notification though. I guess it’s a good quick signal that folks are listening and either like or don’t like the content in a minimalist sense. Zaps are a much more appreciation of the content and replies are interactions that want to take it to a conversational human level.

Almost every popular social media platform limits a post’s reach based on how often the user checks their notifications. On TikTok, posts reach to more ppl if a user turns their notifications off and close the app for few hours after posting - which is a known method amidst influencers. Notifications r there to call users to open the app and spend more time on it and if they don’t they try to generate more likes/notifications. So yes those features were created to make platforms more addictive.

The challenge with social platforms is that everything is asynchronous, it’s not like a conversation in real life where the feedback loop is in real time. We’re trying to facilitate dialog over a broadcast medium.

What about limiting likes notifications to just your contacts/follows?

I like this post (how hard was that?). Instead of sending large integers across the interwebs, I'll pay tribute by adding this:

In addition to all these good points, there's also the fact that unless nostr turns into something that is not nostr (i.e. not meaningfully decentralized) or someone invents magic, there is no way to get accurate aggregate real-time counts of anything (not likes, not followers, not anything). And what are "likes" without counts of likes?

There are many ways that decentralized social media is going to diverge from what people are used to on centralized platforms. As I think you wrote somewhere, part of nostr is embracing the chaos.

> I think being human is seeing the reactions of your peers directly in their faces as you say something.

100% agree. Most of our digital interactions are a poor model of the real thing. But I think a lot of the issues you are bringing up are mostly issues because they have been used on platforms for global discourse. Our brains weren’t made for global discourse and I think that’s where a lot of the psychological issues with social media come in.

Relationships need trust and conversations need context. Platforms like Twitter have low trust and context. Contrast this with a Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp group of your closest friends or family - high trust and high context. I think the middle is the sweet spot for healthier social media. Likes from people you trust and have context with are meaningful and useful.

This is why we’ll probably have likes in Nos, but we’ll also be restricting your view in most places to people you follow and people they follow (like secure scuttlebutt, and https://iris.to). This creates a medium trust/context space. This view restriction isn’t perfect, but it’s a start, and I hope we see lots of experiments in this area on Nostr.

good point！speaker and listener are not only two messaging terminal！